Bettye Lavette -

'There's a space in American music where country meets soul, where elements of blues, folk, pop, jazz, gospel and r&b meld in seamless alchemy, where genre boundaries are ultimately not very meaningful...This is a space that is all too rarely accessed in most contemporary recordings, yet it is a space that Bettye Lavette returns to again and again...Ms. Lavette is one of the greatest soul singers in American music history'- Anti Records.