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(Pat Delmar)

Bettye LaVette’s new iTunes EP “A Change is Gonna Come Sessions” debuts at #8 on the Billboard Top Current Blues albums this week.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette raves: “On this six-song EP, LaVette brings her singular depth to the title song and is achingly poignant on Billy Strayhorn’s ‘Lush Life,’ Thelonious Monk’s ‘Round Midnight’ is wrenching…While she reminds us of Otis Redding’s intense pleading and of Tina Turner and Patti LaBelle’s firepower, it is LaVette’s soul-deep emotion and transcendent delivery that sets her apart…It seems LaVette’s long overdue time has finally come.”