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" A woman like me / "
Bettye LaVette ; with David Ritz.
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BL
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683204
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b505393
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| Main Entry
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LaVette, Bettye,1946-
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A woman like me /\ Bettye LaVette ; with David Ritz.
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New York :: Blue Rider Press,, c2012.
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262 p., [16] p. of plates :: ill. (some col.) ;; 24 cm.
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039915938X
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: 9780399159381
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Includes discography and index.
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The singer's autobiography charts one missed chance and blown opportunity after another on the way to belated renown 40 years into her career. Born Betty Haskins in Michigan, she was a high school dropout, married and a mother by the age of 15, and ran wild through the Motor City clubs. Rechristened Bettye LaVette, she dove into the music scene, notching a top-10 national R&B hit on Atlantic in 1962. While she reached the top 40 several more times through the early '80s, LaVette never experienced sustained success. Her latter-day albums for the independent label Anti- finally brought her the audience she coveted. Her own recounting suggests she was the victim of her own monumentally misguided judgment. She indulged heartily in alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and sex--she counted Otis Redding, Solomon Burke and Jackie Wilson among her many paramours, sustained a decades-long affair with record exec Clarence Paul, had a long-term female lover and worked off and on as a prostitute.
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LaVette, Bettye,1946-
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Singers-- United States, Biography.
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Ritz, David.
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