Let Me Down Easy: Bettye LaVette in Memphis

Looking back on the career of a living legend, Let Me Down Easy: Bettye LaVette in Memphis captures the recordings she made in the 1960s for Silver Fox Records, part of the Sun Records family celebrating 70 years. Blending her northern R&B with southern soul, this remastered retrospective includes tracks like the rocking He Made a Woman Out of Me, her explosive cover of Piece of My Heart, and Let Me Down Easy, which was recently featured by the electronic duo ODESZA.

Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the great soul interpreters of her generation," Bettye LaVette is a vocalist who can take any type of song and make it completely her own. Bettye is one of very few of her contemporaries who were recording during the birth of soul music in the 1960s and is still creating vital recordings today. To quote the late, great George Jones: "Bettye is truly a 'singer's singer.'"

Tracklist

A1. He Made a Woman Out of Me
A2. At the Mercy of a Man 
A3. I'm in Love
A4. My Train's Coming In
A5. Nearer to You 
A6. Do Your Duty 
B1. Let Me Down Easy 
B2. Games People Play
B3. Take Another Little Piece of My Heart 
B4. We Got to Slip Around
B5. Easier to Say (Than Do)
B6. Love's Made a Fool Out of Me