Bettye LaVette - Blackpool International Soul Festival, Winter Gardens, Blackpool, Britain, 6-22-2024

Here's a really interesting concert by Bettye LaVette. I'm not totally certain, but I think it may be the only one like it she's ever done in her long career. In short, in this concert, she ONLY performed songs from the 1960s phase of her career.

As I've explained in other posts, LaVette pretty much had two music careers. She was a decently popular soul singer in the 1960s, but that career petered out in the early 1970s. Then, in the early 2000s, she had a career revival that has kept going strong ever since then. She ended up being more popular as a senior citizen than she ever was when she was young. 

Generally speaking, since her career revival began, she's only played songs from her recent albums, with only a few exceptions. The biggest exception is "Let Me Down Easy," which she plays at all her concerts. It wasn't a big hit at the time, but it's grown to be considered a soul classic, and her signature song. I looked up her song stats at the setlist.fm database website, and it's pretty clear that she's never performed the vast majority of these songs in concerts ever, at least not since the 1960s. 

I don't know what inspired her to do this. According to a knowledgeable commenter, the promoters hired her to perform this kind of concert, and even chose the songs. Even so, it's a pretty bold and challenging move, when she could have just rested on her laurels and played the same songs as usual. Keep in mind she was 79 years old at the time of this concert! Yet her voice was just as soulful as ever. 

I found this concert on Bettye LaVette's YouTube page. It hasn't gotten much notice there, and I haven't seen mention of it anywhere else. I did my usual thing of converting the video to audio then chopping it into mp3s. I couldn't find a song list anywhere, so I had to figure out the song titles myself. I got a couple of them wrong at first, but a commenter corrected me, so they should be good now.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality on this is as good as typical soundboard or FM radio broadcast. 

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 I Feel Good [All Over] (Bettye LaVette)
02 talk (Bettye LaVette)
03 Only Your Love Can Save Me (Bettye LaVette)
04 talk (Bettye LaVette)
05 I'm Just a Fool for You (Bettye LaVette)
06 talk (Bettye LaVette)
07 Your Turn to Cry (Bettye LaVette)
08 I'm Holding On (Bettye LaVette)
09 talk (Bettye LaVette)
10 You Made a Believer Out of Me (Bettye LaVette)
11 Ticket to the Moon (Bettye LaVette)
12 Stormy (Bettye LaVette)
13 talk (Bettye LaVette)
14 Almost (Bettye LaVette)
15 talk (Bettye LaVette)
16 Just Dropped In [To See What Condition My Condition Is In] (Bettye LaVette)
17 Hey Love (Bettye LaVette)
18 Let Me Down Easy (Bettye LaVette)
19 talk by emcee (Bettye LaVette)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/g8HeSdU8

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/nu0btV2FX0LhEfh/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from the YouTube video of this exact concert.