Episode 875 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters in the Cass Corridor with a program centered on the great Detroit singer Bettye LaVette and her brand new album for Verve Records called Blackbirds, a tribute to great singers of yore like Billie Holiday, Ruth Brown, Della Reece, Nancy Wilson, Dinah Washington and others, interspersed with pieces of conversation between Bettye and the editors of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine, Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens. The musical program concludes with a number from her previous album, I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise.
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
BLACKBIRDS
JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 875
Cass Corridor, Detroit, August 8, 2020 [20509]
Yusef Lateef: Happyology
Bettye LaVette: Blackbird
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Romance In The Dark
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Strange Fruit
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: I Hold No Grudge
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Romance In The Dark
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Blues For The Weepers
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Drinking Again
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Save Your Love For Me
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: Book Of Lies
Bettye LaVette Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: One More Song
Bettye LaVette Closing Conversation with Robert Jr. & Sugar Mae
Bettye LaVette: On The Surface
Charlie Parker: They Can’t Take That Away From Me
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Program produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Steve Pratt
© 2020 The John Sinclair Foundation
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Thank you for reading, and for your feedback. Please support John Sinclair. Love, steve