Bettye LaVette - Soulville - Non-Album Tracks (2017-2023)

I've been posting a few Bettye LaVette albums lately. Here's another one. It's another collection of non-album tracks, from 2017 to 2023. This gets us caught up to current day, since I didn't find any non-album tracks worthy of inclusion since 2023.

Six of the songs here are unreleased: tracks 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 12. All of them are from concert bootlegs. They generally come from tribute concerts. I removed the audience cheering from all of them so they'd fit in better with the studio tracks.

Tracks 1 and 3 come from the deluxe edition of "Music from The American Epic Sessions." Track 4 is from the Todd Rundgren album "White Knight." Tracks 8 and 11 are from tribute albums. For more details, look at the mp3 tags for each song, as usual.

This album is 52 minutes long. 

01 Nobody's Dirty Business (Bettye LaVette)
02 Jingle Bells - White Christmas - This Christmas (Bettye LaVette)
03 When I Woke Up This Morning (Bettye LaVette)
04 Naked and Afraid (Todd Rundgren & Bettye LaVette)
05 Person to Person (Bettye LaVette)
06 Ain't No Way (Bettye LaVette)
07 Soulville (Bettye LaVette)
08 Loser (Dave McMurray with Bettye LaVette & Bob Weir)
09 On Your Way Down (Little Feat & Bettye LaVette)
10 A Apolitical Blues - Long Distance Call (Little Feat & Bettye LaVette)
11 Call It Stormy Monday (Count Basie Orchestra with Bettye LaVette)
12 The Man I Love (Bettye LaVette)

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alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/9QsaHww5PLK38MI/file

The cover photo was taken at the Apollo Theater in New York City on April 4, 2019. I used Photoshop to remove some writing on the wall behind her head.

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.

Bettye LaVette - Season of Change - Non-Album Tracks (2012-2017)

I recently came across a recent Bettye LaVette concert I was impressed by and plan on posting here soon. That reminded me that I've never finished posting a couple more collections of non-album tracks from her. So here's the next one.

As I've mentioned previously, LaVette has had an unusual career. She had some success in the 1960s as a soul singer. But then she struggled for a long, long time, only to have a big and prolonged career revival since the early 2000s. That revival gave her a lot of opportunities to appear in tribute concerts, on other artists' albums, and the like. This album is a mix of those sorts of things.

Tracks 6, 7, 8, and 11 are unreleased. All of them come from appearances at tribute concerts. Track 9 is a live performance too, but it comes from a deluxe edition version of one of her albums. For all these live songs, I used MVSEP to get rid of the crowd noise.

The other songs are all released, and from studio albums. The first two tracks here are actually from an EP she released, called "More Thankful, More Thoughtful." It consisted of extra songs from her 2012 album "Thankful N' Thoughtful." The rest (tracks 3, 4, 5, 10, and 12) are mostly from appearances on albums by other artists, and generally are duets.

By the way, in addition to getting this album ready for posting, at the same time, I went over her past non-album track albums and improved them. I added a song to the "Heart of Gold" collection, a duet with Joe Tex that only recently emerged on YouTube. Here's the link to that one:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/04/bettye-lavette-heart-of-gold-various.html

And for the album in this series previous to this one, "Change Is Gonna Come," most of the songs were unreleased live versions. I used the MVSEP program to get rid of the cheering, so they'd fit in with the other songs. I also improved the sound quality of two bonus tracks enough to add them to the main album. Here's the link to that:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/05/bettye-lavette-change-is-gonna-come.html  

This album is 52 minutes long. 

01 Long Time (Bettye LaVette)
02 Save Some Time to Dream (Bettye LaVette)
03 Most of the Time (Bettye LaVette)
04 Yours and Mine (Dynamites featuring Charles Walker & Bettye Lavette)
05 Hustlin' [In the Motor City] (Bettye LaVette)
06 I'm Only Sleeping (Bettye LaVette)
07 Watching the Wheels (Bettye LaVette)
08 I [Who Have Nothing] (Bettye LaVette)
09 Like a Rock (Bettye LaVette)
10 Make You Feel My Love (Will Porter & Bettye LaVette)
11 In My Secret Life (Bettye LaVette)
12 Season of Change (Stone Foundation with Bettye LaVette) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/H6yJnwZY

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/mikQeQOUG5CzXXL/file

The cover is from the "Robert Johnson at 100 Centennial" concert at the Apollo Theater in New York City on March 6, 2012.

Bettye LaVette - Millennium Stage, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 6-1-2022

Here's an unreleased concert by soul singer Bettye LaVette. 

I'm posting it for three reasons. One, she'd backed by just a piano player, so it's basically a solo acoustic concert. That's a very unusual format for her, and one I particularly like. Two, I found this as a YouTube video, and as far as I know it's never been made available as sound files until now. Finally, three, it's a professionally recorded web broadcast, so the sound quality is excellent.

At the time of this concert in 2022, LaVette's most recent album was "Blackbirds," released in 2020. She was still touring to support that, so most of the songs come from that. But about half of the songs come from earlier albums. However, maybe because it's only an hour-long concert, only one songs goes back to her 1960s singles, "My Man - He's a Lovin' Man."

In my opinion, LaVette is one of the most soulful singers still alive and kicking, and she definitely still has her "it" factor here.

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 talk (Bettye LaVette)
02 Misty (Bettye LaVette)
03 Intro to The Forecast [Calls for Pain] (Bettye LaVette)
04 The Forecast [Calls for Pain] (Bettye LaVette)
05 talk (Bettye LaVette)
06 Hold No Grudge (Bettye LaVette)
07 talk (Bettye LaVette)
08 Save Your Love for Me (Bettye LaVette)
09 Isn't It a Pity (Bettye LaVette)
10 talk (Bettye LaVette)
11 Just Dropped In [To See What Condition My Condition Was In] (Bettye LaVette)
12 talk (Bettye LaVette)
13 Yesterday Is Here (Bettye LaVette)
14 talk (Bettye LaVette)
15 My Man - He's a Lovin' Man (Bettye LaVette)
16 talk (Bettye LaVette)
17 Love Reign O'er Me (Bettye LaVette)
18 Intro to Blackbird (Bettye LaVette)
19 Blackbird (Bettye LaVette)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16386840/BETTYLVTTE2022MllnnmStgeKnndyCntrWshngtnDC__6-1-2022_atse.zip.html

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

Various Artists - Tower of Song - A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen, Centre Bell, Montreal, Canada, 11-6-2017

Leonard Cohen died in 2016 at the age of 82. Exactly one year later, his son Adam Cohen put on a memorial concert. Leonard had specifically asked that such a concert be held in Montreal, Canada, so that's where it happened. It was broadcast on Canadian television and radio through the CBC, and later sold as a DVD, but it has never been released as an album. But it was professionally recorded thanks to the broadcasts, so it sounds great here.

This album is based on the CBC radio broadcast, which had great sound quality. (The DVD misses a bunch of songs.) However, there was a big problem with that broadcast, in that someone did a voiceover to talk over all the applause between songs, usually to introduce the next performer. This was very annoying since it was clearly added later and not part of the actual concert. Worse, the voice sometimes went over to the start of the next song. So thank God for audio editing programs like UVR5. I was able to use that to wipe out the voiceover which keeping the underlying applause and/or music. This means there are no verbal introductions of the performers. I don't know if that was the case in the actual concert or not. But you can just look at the song list here.

I also had a few problems with some missing music. Two songs weren't included in the radio broadcast, for whatever reason: "Tower of Song" and "Everybody Knows." That's when the DVD came in handy, because those ones happened to be included. But there was a problem with another song that I couldn't solve, "Closing Time." This was the last song of the concert, and it appears the radio show ran out of time, because it cut the song off before it ended. To make matters worse, the DVD didn't include that song. So there was nothing I could do. I added a chorus to the end of the song so the ending wouldn't seem so weird (which is why it has "[Edit]" in the title. But I didn't have a way to give the music a proper ending after that, so I still had it fade out.

Now, let's get to the performers. I really like the list of performers, including some big names, like Sting and Elvis Costello. But one has to put a kind of asterisk next to the performance of "Tower of Song," with no less than Willie Nelson, Celine Dion, Peter Gabriel, Chris Martin & Leonard Cohen all singing lead vocals on it! That was prerecorded elsewhere, probably due to those artists not being able to attend the concert in person. And note the involvement of Cohen on that song. I'm guessing a recording from a concert before his death was used and cleverly edited in to go with the other voices. A similar recorded performance happened to Cohen's voice on "A Thousand Kisses Deep."

Note that I wanted to keep the focus on the music, so I cut out some non-musical bits. For instance, there was a long speech by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau. I removed all of that. However, I did keep the recitation of a poem by actor Seth Rogen, since that was an interesting poem by Cohen.

If you're a fan of Cohen's songs at all, you really should give this a listen. Pretty much all the performances were solid, though I think k. d. lang was the highlight with her version of "Hallelujah."

This album is an hour and 57 minutes long.

01 Dance Me to the End of Love (Sting)
02 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye (Feist)
03 Who by Fire (Patrick Watson)
04 I'm Your Man (Sharon Robinson)
05 Democracy (Lumineers)
06 A Thousand Kisses Deep (Leonard Cohen [Recording])
07 Suzanne (Ron Sexsmith)
08 The Future (Elvis Costello)
09 Famous Blue Raincoat (Damien Rice)
10 So Long, Marianne (Adam Cohen with the Webb Sisters)
11 Hallelujah (k. d. lang)
12 Tower of Song [Recording] (Willie Nelson, Celine Dion, Peter Gabriel, Chris Martin & Leonard Cohen)
13 Sisters of Mercy (Sting)
14 Chelsea Hotel No. 2 (Lana Del Rey & Adam Cohen)
15 In My Secret Life (Bettye LaVette)
16 Everybody Knows (Courtney Love)
17 Field Commander Cohen [Poem] (Seth Rogen)
18 If It Be Your Will (Borns with the Webb Sisters)
19 The Partisan (Coeur de Pirate, Adam Cohen & Damien Rice)
20 Bird on a Wire (Elvis Costello)
21 Anthem (Sting)
22 Coming Back to You (Adam Cohen & Basia Bulat)
23 Closing Time [Edit] (Basia Bulat)

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https://bestfile.io/en/uEEd4BXXEU8yal8/file

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https://www.imagenetz.de/aJCqE

The cover is the poster for this concert. However, I had to make some changes to get a rectangular poster to fit into a square space. I repositioned some things using Photoshop. I also updated some of the artist names at the bottom to better reflect who actually performed at the concert. For instance, it had mentioned Phillip Glass, who didn't show, and failed to mention some, like Ron Sexsmith, Courtney Love, and Bettye LaVette, who did show.

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.

Bettye LaVette - Change Is Gonna Come - Expanded Version (2003-2009)

I posted a couple of albums of Bettye LaVette's music, back in 2021. But those were from the 1960s, the start of her music career. She had a little success then, but then faded into obscurity for several decades. As her Wikipedia entry says, she "achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, when her album 'I've Got My Own Hell to Raise' was released to widespread critical acclaim, and was named on many critics' 'Best of 2005' lists." Since then, her career rebirth has continued going strong, all the way until the current day (as I write this in 2023), with her planning to release another new album soon, despite being 77 years old.

She didn't record much during her lost decades, so there isn't material there for stray track albums. But I plan on posting some more stray track albums from her career rebirth, starting with this one.

The bulk of this album is an EP released in 2009 called "Change Is Gonna Come Sessions." By 2009, she still wasn't that well known. But in January 2009, she sang of duet of the Sam Cooke classic "A Change Is Gonna Come" with Jon Bon Jovi at the presidential inauguration celebration for Barack Obama. Her performance was considered a highlight and got a lot of attention. It led to this EP, which naturally contained a studio version of "A Change Is Gonna Come" (without Bon Jovi this time). The rest of the EP (tracks 5 through 10) consisted of more covers of classic songs.

That EP is only 24 minutes long. But prior to that, she performed four more covers for various tribute albums, from 2003 to 2007. So those make up four of the first five songs here. The other one is "Laughter Ever After," in which she sang the lead vocals for a song on an album by Andy Lewis.

I enjoy LaVette's covers, because she does the songs in her own gruff-voiced, soulful style, rather than trying to be like the originals. That's definitely the case here.

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 Real Real Gone (Bettye LaVette)
02 Laughter Ever After (Andy Lewis & Bettye LaVette)
03 Night Time Is the Right Time (Bettye LaVette, Andre Williams & Nathaniel Mayer)
04 What's Happening Brother (Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Bettye LaVette)
05 Streets of Philadelphia (Bettye LaVette)
06 A Change Is Gonna Come (Bettye LaVette)
07 'Round Midnight (Bettye LaVette)
08 God Bless the Child (Bettye LaVette)
09 Ain't No Sunshine (Bettye LaVette)
10 Ain't That Lovin' You (Bettye LaVette)
11 Lush Life (Bettye LaVette)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cHhJEhkT

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/5ISorDbeK7SFgTW/file

 The cover is exactly the same as the original EP, except I removed the word "Sessions."

Bettye LaVette - Heart of Gold - Non-Album Tracks (1969-1978)

A day ago, I posted an album of Bettye LaVette's stray tracks from most of the 1960s. This continues that, from 1968 to the end of the 1970s.

As I mentioned with that previous post, LaVette essentially has had two music careers. She was a struggling soul singer in the 1960s, with only a couple of minor hits, in 1962 and 1965. Then, after a couple of decades with very little interest or new recordings, she had a surprising career revival in the 2000s and she's been going strong ever since.

The time period covered here is a frustrating one, because she recorded a lot of great music, but hardly anyone heard it at the time. In addition to the music presented here, she recorded two albums that weren't released until decades later. One is now called "Take Another Little Piece of My Heart," and was recorded in 1969. The other has been released with the names "Souvenirs" and "Child of the Seventies," and was recorded in 1972. I highly recommend both of them, if you like her music at all.

What we have here is everything else she recorded in that time period. The vast majority of these songs were actually released at the time as singles, but they had very little impact. The problem was, record companies and producers and such knew LaVette had tons of musical talent, so they kept giving her chances with new singles, even though she hadn't had a hit in ages. But due to poor promotion or whatever, nothing caught on. 

Things more or less petered out as the 1970s went on. The last song here, "Doin' the Best I Can," is disco from those few years when everyone and their brother felt obliged to do disco. Personally, I don't like it and I think it doesn't fit with the rest, but I'm including it for completeness's sake. You can remove that and still have a very nice album.

This album is 50 minutes long.

UPDATE: On February 20, 2026, I updated the mp3 download file. I added a song I'd previously missed. It's a duet of LaVette with Joe Tex, singing Tex's hit song "Show Me" for a 1970 TV show. It's the only unreleased song on this album.

01 With a Little Help from My Friends (Bettye LaVette)
02 Hey Love (Bettye LaVette)
03 Ticket to the Moon (Bettye LaVette)
04 Show Me (Joe Tex & Bettye LaVette)
05 Never My Love (Bettye LaVette)
06 Stormy (Bettye LaVette)
07 Heart of Gold (Bettye LaVette)
08 You'll Wake Up Wiser (Bettye LaVette)
09 Waiting for Tomorrow (Bettye LaVette)
10 Livin' Life on a Shoestring (Bettye LaVette)
11 Behind Closed Doors (Bettye LaVette)
12 You're a Man of Words, I'm a Woman of Action (Bettye LaVette)
13 You Made a Believer Out of Me (Bettye LaVette)
14 Thank You for Loving Me (Bettye LaVette)
15 Feelings (Bettye LaVette)
16 Doin' the Best I Can (Bettye LaVette)

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alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/MyK1dS79bx99OCa/file

The cover art photo is said to date from 1970. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it.

Bettye LaVette - Let Me Down Easy - Non-Album Tracks (1962-1968)

In my opinion, Bettye LaVette is a major figure in soul music, and I plan on posting a lot of her stuff in the future. But her career had a very strange trajectory. She began recording in 1962, when she was only 16 years old, and she's still going strong, with her being 75 years old as I write this. But she only had a couple of minor hits in the 1960s, and her career sputtered after the early 1970s. It was only in the 2000s when she's had a surprising late career resurgence, releasing many critically acclaimed albums since then.

In the 1960s and 1970s, LaVette wasn't popular enough to have any studio albums released. Her first album wouldn't appear until 1982. Some songs have come out on this or that archival compilation, but none of them have come close to being definitive. So I've collected all the unique songs she did back then and I've made this stray tracks collection of them. (There's more from 1968 onwards, but that'll be the subject of a future album to be posted here.) The vast majority of these songs are A- or B-sides to singles. There are only three songs that aren't. I'm guessing those were recorded as potential singles but were kept in the vaults until she became famous much later.

The songs here are hit and miss, in my opinion. There's some great stuff, and some forgettable stuff. But overall she has a remarkable voice that can elevate mediocre material. And when she's on, it can be incredible. I've named this album "Let Me Down Easy" because that song is a clear stand out. When it was released in 1965, it was only a minor hit, reaching number 20 on the soul charts. But since it's been rightly been seen as a soul classic and probably her de facto signature song. If you look at the Wikipedia entry on the song, you'll find professional music reviewers who call it a "masterpiece" and a song which "many consider to be one of the great soul sides of all time." I heartily agree.

This album is 53 minutes long. 

By the way, note that up until 1977, she was known as "Betty LaVette." At that point, she added an "E" to the end of her first name. Since she's become much better known with the "Bettye" name, I've used that name for all the songs here, for consistency's sake.

01 My Man - He's a Lovin' Man (Bettye LaVette)
02 Shut Your Mouth (Bettye LaVette)
03 You'll Never Change (Bettye LaVette)
04 Here I Am (Bettye LaVette)
05 Witchcraft in the Air (Bettye LaVette)
06 You Killed the Love (Bettye LaVette)
07 [Happiness Will Cost You] One Thin Dime (Bettye LaVette)
08 Let Me Down Easy (Bettye LaVette)
09 What I Don't Know [Won't Hurt Me] (Bettye LaVette)
10 I Feel Good [All Over] (Bettye LaVette)
11 Only Your Love Can Save Me (Bettye LaVette)
12 I'm Just a Fool for You (Bettye LaVette)
13 Stand Up like a Man (Bettye LaVette)
14 Cry Me a River (Bettye LaVette)
15 She Don't Love You like I Love You (Bettye LaVette)
16 I'm Holding On (Bettye LaVette)
17 Tears in Vain (Bettye LaVette)
18 Almost (Bettye LaVette)
19 Get Away (Bettye LaVette)
20 Just Dropped In [To See What Condition My Condition Is In] (Bettye LaVette)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16373075/BETTYLVTTE1962-1968LetMeDwnEsy_atse.zip.html

I couldn't find any good color photos of her from the 1960s. So for the album cover, I used a black and white photo from that era, and colorized it. I found a black and white cover to her "Let Me Down Easy" single. I had some issues with it, including it being somewhat blurry, but I used elements of it to give the cover an authentic period look with the text, the bars, the mono logo, and the record company logo.