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Musicians :
Bettye Lavette (lead vocals), The LaVettes (backing vocals), Pino Palladino (bass), Larry Campbell (guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin), Leon Pendarvis (piano, electric piano, keyboards), Keith Richards (guitar), ... [Show more]
Description:
Musicians :
Bettye Lavette (lead vocals), The LaVettes (backing vocals), Pino Palladino (bass), Larry Campbell (guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin), Leon Pendarvis (piano, electric piano, keyboards), Keith Richards (guitar), Gil Goldstein (organ, harmonium, electric Harpsichord, accordion), Nioka Workman (cello), Ina Paris (viola), Charisa Dowe Rouse, Rose Bartu (violin), Trombone Shorty (trombone), Ivan Neville (clavinet), Steve Jordan (drums, percussion, acoustic guitar).
For her 10th album and first album on a major label in nearly 30 years, legendary soul singer BETTYE LAVETTE takes on the songs of BOB DYLAN with the grit and experience that makes her one of the greatest living soul singers.
THINGS HAVE CHANGED is a masterpiece of interpretation of one of the greatest songwriters alive, by one of the greatest soul singers alive. Keith Richards and Trombone Shorty guest on the Steve Jordan-produced album.
Since the great 21st century rediscovery of Bettye LaVette returned her to prominence, she has worked extensively in the rock and folk idioms, with her unique takes on songs by the likes of The Who, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Fiona Apple, and Dolly Parton. But never before has she devoted an entire album to the material of one songwriter.
THINGS HAVE CHANGED spans more than five decades of Dylan songs, from 1964's immortal "The Times They Are A-Changin'" up to "Ain't Talkin'", the epic final track on his 2006 album Modern Times.
"Other people write songs, but he writes vignettes, more prose than poetry. I didn't find his words to be pretty so much as they are extremely practical or extremely logical. He can work things like 'go jump off a ledge' into a song", says Bettye.
Bettye has only come face-to-face with Bob Dylan once, at a festival in Italy. Both backstage, Dylan was preparing to go on when his longtime bassist Tony Garnier pointed out Bettye. Dylan immediately stopped, walked over, and grabbed Bettye's face in his hands and kissed her, and headed out to play his show.
THINGS HAVE CHANGED sees Dylan's songs seriously transformed : "I had never really listened to It Ain't Me Babe," she says. "But I had to make it more dismissive not fast and hard, but like a Jimmy Reed tune. And 'The Times They Are A Changin', I had to flip that all the way round, so we worked up the groove on a beat box. That just made it extremely surprising".
"Whatever she sings acquires the fierce, confessional intensity of someone who barely lived to tell the tale". - New York Times
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