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Bettye LaVette

Another stunner from this magnificent artist!  Just now have the opportunity to play her new recording, Blackbirds, and its stunning.  Produced by the great Steve Jordan, Mastered by the great Greg Calbi (of whom I am terribly envious, he masters all of Dylan's recordings).  This Bettye LaVette album (I have it on standard CD) is simply magnificent, wonderful wonderful soulful singing, magnificent recording, and over the top song selection; there is a theme.  Take a listen, you will have no regrets if you do.

All the best to everyone-

Richard
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kijanki
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I noticed there is no info about recording process.  I remember most of older CDs had designation next to Compact Disk logo, like ADD - meaning Analog recording, Digital mixing, Digital media.  Some of classical recordings listed exact model of the recording device and name of the recording engineer.  Nothing on latest CDs.  Why?
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@rpeluso Thank you, it is fantastic - I just finished listening to it.  Not to many singers, these days, understands the words they're singing.  I can feel she does and she owns each song.  I have "The Scene of The Crime", but to me this is much better.  Sound is also very good.  Bass, so important in R&B music is wonderfully recorded, full and well controlled.  Amount of reverberation is just right.  I ordered the previous one "Things Have Changed".
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