Bettye LaVette - Love Me Still - Non-Album Tracks (2009-2012)

A week or two ago (writing this in June 2023), I posted an album of stray tracks from the beginning of Bettye LaVette's comeback in the early 2000's. This continues that with another bunch of stray tracks.

The majority of the songs here are unreleased. The exceptions are tracks 7 and 8 (from a Steve Cropper album) and tracks 12, 13 and 14 (which are bonus tracks).

I mentioned with the last album that a key moment in her comeback was when she sang a duet with Jon Bon Jovi for President Obama's inauguration. I didn't include that version of "A Change Is Gonna Come" on that previous album, because it already had a studio version of that song. But I'm starting this album out with the unreleased, live duet version.

All the other songs come from concert bootlegs. However, the sound quality is pretty good, though it varies some. They're generally covers of famous songs.

This album is 54 minutes long.

UPDATE: On February 22, 2026, I updated the mp3 download file. The songs are the same. However, I improved the sound quality on most of them. For instance, I got rid of the crowd noise on the songs with crowd noise, which was the vast majority of them. And two songs had been bonus tracks due to sound quality problems: "I'm Losing You" and "I'll Be Back." But I did extra work on them, using the MVSEP program. I think I improved them enough so I got rid of their bonus track status and put them in the album proper.

01 A Change Is Gonna Come (Bettye LaVette & Jon Bon Jovi)
02 I've Been Loving You Too Long (Bettye LaVette)
03 Natural Blues (Moby & Bettye LaVette)
04 Imagine (Joan Osborne & Bettye LaVette)
05 I'm Losing You (Bettye LaVette)
06 Love Me Still (Bettye LaVette)
07 Don't Be Ashamed (Bettye LaVette & Steve Cropper)
08 Say It (Bettye LaVette & Steve Cropper)
09 Damn Your Eyes (Bettye LaVette)
10 America, the Beautiful (Bettye LaVette)
11 I'll Be Back [Edit] (Bettye LaVette)
12 Old (Bettye LaVette)
13 Welcome to the Good Times (Bettye LaVette)
14 Whole Lotta Lonely (Bettye LaVette)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ir3rhXsa 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/j4gvKFsYGAiEUMe/file

In my opinion, the cover kind of looks like a painting, especially with the background colors. But it's actually an unchanged photo taken from a concert in London in June 2010.