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After pandemic pause, Bettye LaVette is back

Touring on her 2020 album 'blackbirds' for the first time, the blues/soul singer talks about choosing songs to record and a new collab with odesza before her gig at thirty one west in newark.

Bettye LaVette is exhausted, and for good reason. On the afternoon we spoke, the 76-year-old soul singer had just wrapped up a four-night run at New York City jazz club the Blue Note, with two shows each night. The residency marked the kickoff of LaVette’s national tour, her first since the pandemic hit, and the quick turnaround of going from idle to full-throttle was giving her whiplash.

“Honey, my fingernails hurt,” LaVette said by phone earlier this week, laughing at her plight. “I'm entirely too old to be jerked around like that. Imagine if you grabbed your grandmother by her arm and just rushed out and started running down the street with her real fast. … But it's something I always wanted to do — pack the Blue Note. And I did.”

The rest of LaVette’s tour schedule, including a stop at Thirty One West in Newark, Ohio, on Friday, Feb. 18 , should be easier to manage. And truth be told, LaVette was beyond ready to bring her legendary voice back to the stage. “I just don't need to be idle for a long time, because if I'm able to be functional and danceable and movable at this age, I need to keep doing it,” she said.

Plus, it’s LaVette’s first extended opportunity to perform material from her 2020 album, Blackbirds (Verve), a collection of songs inspired by some of the Black female singers who preceded her in the 1950s, with tracks made popular by Nina Simone (“I Hold No Grudge”), Dinah Washington (“Drinking Again”), Nancy Wilson (“Save Your Love for Me”), Billie Holiday (“Strange Fruit”) and others. As always, LaVette fully inhabits the songs and makes them her own, her smoky voice lifting and breaking in all the right places.

LaVette is picky about the songs she chooses to interpret. “The lyrics, if they're funny, they have to be really funny. And if they're serious, they have to be absolutely serious, because I sing all of my words very distinctly and plainly,” she said. “I have to see myself in the song. ... There are some really good songs that I won't do because of some of the content. I never use the word ‘boy.’ I never use the 'you keep hurting me and I keep coming back’ [trope].” 

In the studio, LaVette envisions the entire song before the engineer hits record. She knows how she’ll sing every note, and once she gets it on tape, she’s ready to move on. “It never takes me more than four or five days to record an album. I never do more than three takes at most: one for me, one for the producer and one if anything should go wrong,” she said. “The way you sing a song is going to change in all kinds of little ways, but not that damn day! Learn it, come in and sing it and go home!” 

“Blackbird,” the Beatles tune that serves as the album’s title track, of sorts, is an outlier among other tunes from Black female singers. But LaVette has a special relationship to the song. “When I heard it, I felt that [Paul McCartney] was talking about me,” she said. “Then we started to put this concept together with these other Black female blues singers, and I felt he could be talking about us collectively.” 

“Strange Fruit,” on the other hand, took on added layers of meaning post-recording as racial justice protests spread across the country following the May 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police — events that LaVette said brought the song “into sharper focus.” She performed the song for the first time in June of last year as part of Jazz Aspen Snowmass in Colorado.  

“The first night we got a standing ovation for it,” said LaVette, who performed it with her band the next night for a wealthier crowd. “We finished doing the tune, and Joel, honey, there was not a sound. … I do not know whether it was a silent protest or an apology. I don't know what it was. But it was just weird. And no one spoke of it.” 

This month, one of LaVette’s older tunes — and her biggest hit to this day — gained a new life in a different form. Electronic duo Odesza sampled most of LaVette’s 1965 song “Let Me Down Easy” in its newly released song, “The Last Goodbye.”

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“I have never been so stunned in my life,” said LaVette, who was surprised not only by Odesza’s interest, but also by how much of “Let Me Down Easy” made it into the final version of "The Last Goodbye.” To Odesza’s credit, the duo treated the single as a true collaboration. “They said, 'We'll give you half of it — half the publicity, half the money, everything,’” LaVette said. “I was so... not only pleased, but proud of them, being 50 years younger than me. We've only met on Zoom, but they seemed to be just the nicest guys. And they said, ‘We really want you to come onstage with us at some point.’”

Whether the onstage Odesza collab happens or not, LaVette is overjoyed to be playing music for audiences again, tired body and all. “Believe me, from the Rolling Stones to me, we are so glad to see y'all,” she said. “You're really a great part of what we do.” 

Bettye LaVette Has No ‘Plan B’ for Self-Titled New Album

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Legendary singer-songwriter Bettye LaVette announced her upcoming new album, titled LaVette! , and released its lead single, “Plan B,” on Wednesday. The icon also shared dates for a U.S. summer tour, starting with Seattle, Washington on June 20.

LaVette! is produced by Steve Jordan for his label with Meegan Voss, Jay-Vee Records. Jordan also drums on the album and brought together a host of musicians for the project, featuring Pino Palladino on bass, Larry Campbell and Chris Bruce on guitars, and Leon Pendarvis on keyboard. “When I prepare a band for her, I make sure we have it together. When she joins us, we’re only gonna get one or two takes, because she puts her heart and soul into each performance,” said Jordan in a statement.

Guests on the record include John Mayer, Jon Batiste, Anthony Hamilton, Steve Winwood, Ray Parker Jr., Rev. Charles Hodges, James Carter, and Pedrito Martinez.

“I ain’t got no f*cking other plan,” LaVette said in a press release when remarking on her storied 61-year career, which began in 1960’s Detroit and resurged in the mid-2000’s with I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise . LaVette! is set to release June 16, just four days before her summer tour kicks off.

The Blues Hall of Famer worked with songwriter Randall Bramblett for the new record. “I think he’s the best songwriter I’ve heard in the past 30 years,” said LaVette.

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Bettye LaVette Opens US Tour at The Blue Note (A Gallery)

Last night, Feb. 10, Bettye LaVette kicked off her long-awaited U.S. Tour with the opening night of a four-night eight-show run at Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City.

The show showcased songs from her 2020 album Blackbirds which was nominated for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards. LaVette has tour dates scheduled around the U.S. through May 5, 2022, where she’ll perform at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

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Soul Tracking: The Journey of Bettye LaVette

by Robert Rodi | February 4, 2022

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Bettye LaVette is a member of the first great galvanizing generation of soul singers, alongside Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Otis Redding and Tina Turner, to name but a few, and she easily ranks as their equal. She’s also one of the few left standing, which may be why, over the past decade, she’s finally emerged from what seemed to be the iron grip of cult status into full-wattage stardom. It’s been quite a journey, and before she takes the stage at City Winery this month, it’s worth looking back at the road that led her there. Her C.V. is easy enough to find online (she also wrote an autobiography); what I’m talking about is more subjective: a sonic sampler—largely, but not entirely randomly chosen—of her recorded output in each of the seven decades that thus far comprise her career… beginning with the tune that even today is most associated with her.

1965 – “Let Me Down Easy” LaVette recorded this minor-key R&B ballad about a love gone wrong when she was just nineteen, which isn’t in itself so gobsmacking—until you give it a listen. She packs a beaten world-weariness into her reading of the lyrics (“When you pass by me, baby, baby / Does it hurt so much to smile… I’m beggin’ you baby, please / Let me down easy”), pierced by an occasional agonized cry of the kind that must’ve had the sound engineers scrambling to dial down their levels. If you listened cold, you’d swear the singer was a woman on the far end of at least decades of romantic ill-use. For all its mid-sixties, low-fi, stripped-down acoustics, this is epic, heart-stopping stuff.

1972 – “Heart of Gold” In the early seventies, it wasn’t unusual for soul artists to reach across the genre aisle for material. Just a year earlier, Aretha had transformed Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” into a gospel roof-raiser. But even by those standards, LaVette’s ecstatic, horns-driven cover of Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold” is a weird bit of alchemy. It shouldn’t work, but it most definitely does. When Young sings, “I’ve been to Hollywood / I’ve been to Redwood / I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold,” you feel his aimlessness and yearning. When LaVette sings the same lines, it’s like she’s name-dropping places she’s swept through at gale force. I particularly like the beginning of the bridge, where she chirps a cappella over the chord changes (“Keep me searching / Keep on searching”), accompanied by girl-group harmonies and punctuated by staccato horn hits.

1982 – “Right In the Middle (Of Falling In Love)” In the eighties, LaVette flirted with genres outside her usual turf. She brought a raw energy to her disco endeavors, but in the end it wasn’t her wheelhouse. She did, however, easily translate her strengths to country, as this torch-and-twang number amply demonstrates. There’s a tradition of country singers belting, growling, and wailing, and by this time LaVette had spent more than twenty years doing all of that, in her own unmistakable manner. The song, about a woman demanding that her man stand and deliver, might have come off sounding harsh or threatening, but LaVette brings both joy and sensuality to her ultimatum. When she sings, “Just when we get started / You wanna call it off, no, no / Don’t you dare stop now ’cause I’m / Right in the middle of falling in love,” it’s hard to imagine the guy who could actually walk away.

1997 – “Damn Your Eyes” In this live track, LaVette is freed from the confines of the studio and the need to keep things short for radio play. She feeds off her audience’s energy but also gets deep into a collaborative groove with her band for a lean, intense, utterly ferocious nine-minute tour de force. The text is about a woman raging (alternately quietly and volcanically) at the man who continually undermines her self-control. “I gave myself a good talkin’ to / No more bein’ a fool for you / And when I see you all I remember / Is how you make me wanna surrender / Damn your eyes.” By the time she reaches the harrowing conclusion, you’re aware that there may be a subtext as well. Possibly the singer, forever poised for stardom but never quite reaching it, is addressing a public whose approval and love she can’t help needing, despite being repeatedly burned by it. I may be reading too deeply here; but that’s the power of an artist like LaVette. She opens those interpretive doors, and makes it impossible not to follow her in.

2007 – “I Still Want to Be Your Baby (Take Me Like I Am)” In the new millennium, LaVette pulled off another reinvention, this time as a stone-cold blues-rocker. With Drive By Truckers as her backing band, she rips into this tune with an exhilarating fierceness. It’s a song only a grown-ass woman could sing; its narrator is telling her man that yeah, she’s got some faults, but so goddamn what. There aren’t many vocal acrobatics here; the melody stays within a pretty tight range. But what LaVette accomplishes within that range is amazing. My favorite moment comes when she sings, “I’ve been looking at guys too long to turn my head / When a good-looking guy goes walking by.” She hits nearly every syllable bang on the beat, but lags on the three words “turn my head” so that you actually hear her appreciative gaze drifting over her shoulder after a passing hunk. It’s just a small moment, but I laughed out loud. Through many similar moments, LaVette builds a fully realized character—or possibly (probably?) just invests the song with her own.

2012 – “Time Will Do the Talking” LaVette comes full circle with a gently swaying R&B ballad that might’ve been a hit for her a half-century earlier. But in fact it’s the right tune for her at this moment in her career; for the first time, we hear a little patina on her voice, so that when she sings, “Time’ll do the talking / Years’ll do the walkin’… Time’s gonna tell you, baby, what you can’t hear now,” there’s absolute authority behind it. In this song, she’s a woman who’s come to terms with her passions, and who’s scaled back her expectations of the world, but not her capacity for joy. It’s a great song for her, and she sings the hell out of it.

2020 – “Blackbird” The chief reason LaVette’s cover of Paul McCartney’s iconic Beatles tune is so transformative is that the singer, realizing McCartney’s blackbird is a Black woman, alters the lyrics accordingly. Where McCartney gently exhorted the blackbird to “take these broken wings and learn to fly,” LaVette sings of already having done so. She was a hardcore Civil Rights activist in the sixties (she cooked for a breakfast program run by the Black Panthers), and has been witness to an astonishing, often heartbreaking span of the seemingly endless struggle for racial equality, and she brings all of that to this tune. Her voice is now thick with hard-won wisdom and corrugated by experience, but riveting in its command. When she sings, against a spare and stately arrangement, “All of my life I have waited for this moment to arrive,” it’s a profession of profound personal dignity and self-possession. You may find yourself in tears. Especially since the moment she refers to—like any other—is transient, and as soon as it’s invoked, it may be gone. Which makes a document like this all the more vital. It would be a fitting capstone to LaVette’s career; but she’s only seventy-six. There’s every reason to believe there’s much more to come from her.

At City Winery, 1200 West Randolph, citywinery.com on February 22. 

Robert Rodi is an author, spoken-word performer and musician who has served as Newcity’s Music Editor since 2014. He’s written more than a dozen books, including the travel memoir “Seven Seasons In Siena,” and his literary and music criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Salon, The Huffington Post and many other national and regional publications. Contact: [email protected]

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Our 20 Best Moscow Day Tours of 2022

See all that Moscow has to offer by choosing one or more of our incredible Moscow day tours. Visit Red Square , St. Basil’s , the Kremlin or perhaps a vodka museum and the fantastic Moscow metro system , we have it all. Our expert, informative and fun guides will help you get to know Europe’s largest city. Please click on the day tour details to learn more or contact us for more information about our Moscow tours using the form at the side of the page.  You can also schedule a call with one of our Russian travel specialists to learn more.

Head to the heart of Moscow with a professional guide on a 4-hour private walk through the city center. See Tverskaya and Old Arbat streets, Theatre Square with the world-famous Bolshoi Theatre, and the former KGB headquarters...

• Schedule Daily 09:00 - 20:00
• Languages English-speaking guide is guaranteed. Other languages are on request.
• Walking tours Transportation is not included
• PRIVATE TOUR This is a private tour, there won't be other people in your group

Panoramic City Tour. This Moscow tour is a great start to your trip and the best way to get acquainted with many of the city’s major highlights. Our professional guide will escort you on a route that includes Vorobyevi...

• Schedule Daily 09:00 - 18:00
• Tours by car Transportation by private car/minivan is included

This tour offers a detailed look into the history and present-day life of the Jewish community of Moscow. On the tour, you will visit sites connected with the cultural and religious life of different Jewish families, as well...

• Schedule Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday 11:00 - 20:00 Friday 10:00 - 14:00 Saturday not available

The tour begins with a drive or walk down Tverskaya Street – a Soviet masterpiece. In the years of Soviet power, Tverskaya began to undergo a transformation: it was widened to two and a half times its original size,...

This is a very interesting and insightful tour. You will visit places connected with Stalin’s terror - a time of great repression and fear. You will be shown monuments to the victims of the repression. You will then...

You will be told of the street’s interesting history and view the street’s artisan culture. You will also have the opportunity to view and purchase souvenirs from the street’s many craftsmen....

The Kremlin is truly a fascinating structure, at the same time it is an ancient tower, the city’s former military fortification, a palace, an armory, the sovereign treasury and the workplace of the Russian President....

• Schedule Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10:00 - 17:00 Thursday not available

This world-famous gallery contains masterpieces of Russian art beginning in the 10th century up until today. You will view exquisite Russian icons and paintings from the 18th and 19th century including works by Rublyov, Karavak,...

• Schedule Monday not available Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday 10:00 - 17:00 Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10:00 - 20:00

Tour of the Novodevichy Monastery. Founded in 1524 by Grand Prince VasiliIoanovich, the original convent was enclosed by fortified walls and contained 12 towers. The structure served as a convent for women of noble birth...

• Schedule Daily 09:00 - 17:00

The Moscow Metro is one of the largest and most grandly built metro systems in the world. It was meant to be a showcase of the Soviet Union’s achievements for both the Russians themselves and for visitors from abroad....

• Schedule Daily 10:00 - 17:00

The history of Kolomenskoye stretches back for centuries. In 1380, Dmitri Donskoi’s army passed through Kolomenskoye on their way to the Kulikovo battlefield, and it was here that Donskoi celebrated his victory over...

• Schedule Monday not available Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday 10:00 - 17:00 Saturday 11:00 - 18:00

Considered by some to be the Russian Vatican, Sergiev Posad is the temporary residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Trinity St. Sergius Monastery (Lavra) was built in the first half of the 1340s by...

The Tsaritsyno Estate is located in the southern part of Moscow. The estate was constructed for Catherine the Great by the Russian architects Bazhenov and Kazakov in a romantic gothic style. The complex includes a landscape...

• Schedule Monday not available Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 11:00 - 17:00 Saturday 11:00 - 19:00 Sunday 11:00 - 18:00

The Kuskovo Estate often called the Moscow Versailles due to its perfectly preserved French park, is an example of an 18th century, luxurious Moscow summer residence. Its history dates back to 1715, when the village of Kuskovo...

• Schedule Monday, Tuesday not available Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10:00 - 18:00

Vodka is an important component of Russian life, an element of national identity and everyday culture. We invite you to visit the Vodka Museum and feel the atmosphere of long-gone centuries. You will get to know the story...

• Schedule Daily 10:00 - 19:00

Take this opportunity to learn more about the Russian writer Lev Tolstoy. During the visit to the museum you will see part of a vast collection of exhibits connected to Tolstoy and his family including books and personal...

• Schedule Monday not available Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10:00 - 17:00 Thursday 12:00 - 19:00

This apartment museum located close to Patriarch Ponds became the prototype of the "bad apartment" described in the novel "The Master and Margarita." Currently the museum's collection includes more than three thousand...

• Schedule Monday not available Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12:00 - 19:00 Thursday 14:00 - 21:00

Express to Russia specializes in Moscow city excursions, an essential part of your Moscow travel itinerary. We offer a large variety of day excursions throughout Moscow and its suburbs. From  Red Square  and the  Kremlin  to a city tour of Moscow’s  Old Arbat Street  or the  Moscow metro , an excursion specializing in Stalin and the KGB and much more. No travel to Moscow is complete without taking a few of our day tours that most meet your interest in Russia.

Moscow City Tours

Our Moscow day excursions can be organized on foot or with transport. All of our excursions are led by an experienced guide, specializing in the subject matter of the tour. Excursions are privately run and can be booked for 1 traveler all the way up to large groups of travelers. We run our Moscow city tours in every season. This is because travel to Moscow is excellent in any season. In the summer take a stroll through  Gorky Park  or take a riverboat tour along the Moskva River. In the winter, see Moscow’s winter wonderland of ice and snow and then settle in for a cozy lunch or dinner with a hot bowl of borsht. In winter, spring and fall, you can beat the crowds at all of Moscow’s main attractions and museums. Regardless of when you come, Express to Russia will make sure that your trip is one of your best vacations ever.

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Moscow City Ballet

A dance company formed in 1988 by the successful Russian choreographer Victor Smirnov-Golovanov. Moscow City Ballet is one of Russia’s most successful more...

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Past Events

Here are the most recent UK tour dates we had listed for Moscow City Ballet. Were you there?

• Jan 25 2022 Torquay, Princess Theatre The Nutcracker Moscow City Ballet
• Jan 24 2022 Torquay, Princess Theatre Swan Lake Moscow City Ballet
• Jan 23 2022 York, Grand Opera House Moscow City Ballet presents The Nutcracker
• Jan 22 2022 Manchester, Opera House Moscow City Ballet - The Nutcracker
• 2022 Jan 20 Jan 21 2022 Manchester, Opera House Swan Lake Moscow City Ballet
• Jan 19 2022 Stoke-on-Trent, Regent Theatre Moscow City Ballet - The Nutcracker
• 2022 Jan 17 Jan 18 2022 Stoke-on-Trent, Regent Theatre Swan Lake Moscow City Ballet
• Jan 15 2022 Richmond Theatre, Surrey Moscow City Ballet - The Nutcracker
• 2022 Jan 12 Jan 14 2022 Richmond Theatre, Surrey Swan Lake Moscow City Ballet
• Jan 11 2022 Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Moscow City Ballet - The Nutcracker

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