PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Betty Lavette Gets to the Soul of British Rock

Her 'Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook' puts a new spin on classics by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Who and more. The woman on stage was nearly 65, dancing across the boards in high heels and shaking her hips to an old Beatles song called "The Word." Except that Bettye LaVette was singing it less as rollicking British Invasion pop and more like a James Brown funk tune, reinterpreting the song to fit her own needs and life experience, while accenting the ...

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