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Bettye Lavette: Late Bloomer Gets Her Mojo On

Bud Scoppa, Paste, 31 October 2007

AFTER ATLANTIC RECORDS shelved what singer Bettye LaVette had hoped would be her breakthrough album in 1972 — an album recorded in soul-music hotbed Muscle Shoals, Ala. — the Detroit native spent more than three decades exiled on the farthest fringes of the music biz, singing for her supper in dives and lounges.

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