THINGS HAVE CHANGED
| Bettye Lavette
THINGS HAVE CHANGED
Things Have Changed is a studio album by Bettye Lavette. It was released in March 2018 through Verve Records. The album features songs originally written and sung by Bob Dylan. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
2018 - Consider Dylan a jumping off point for LaVette – a way of drawing power and focusing attention until she can take the time she needs to describe the world the way it feels to her: a tangle of longing, lust, struggle and hard-won satisfaction.
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Blues Blast Magazine
Things Have Changed may have no new songs, but by golly, it’s got a ton of newfangled verve!
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Spill Magazine
The final time LaVette belts out the chorus and then you hear a little whimper, it cuts to your soul. The whole record has this feel behind it.
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Pop Matters
2018 - Bettye Lavette hasn't just joined the ranks of first-rate Dylan interpreters, female and male — she's taken her place as leader of the pack
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The Guardian
2018 - slinkily ferocious Dylan covers
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All About Jazz
2018 - Bettye LaVette's Things Have Changed isn't merely a homage to Bob Dylan, it is also a remarkable combination of invention and polish, as arresting in production, arrangement and playing as in the novel choice of songs.
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Lexgo
2018 - an intelligent and insightful interpretation of music that travels deep to unexpected reaches of Dylan’s more than 50 year catalog
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American Songwriter
2018 - Dylan’s compositions have effectively been converted into Bettye LaVette songs, a transformation you can’t help but believe even Bob will appreciate.
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Soul Tracks
illustrates how true artistic mavericks and truth tellers never lose their value and ability to bring something to our lives by both reflecting and interrogating them, if only for our own good HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Glide Magazine
2018 - Her barometer is instinctual and precise, the landscape must be fitting, the emotion credible, and the narrative compelling and wise.
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Slant Magazine
2018 - Songs like those find Things Have Changed making good on its promise: the chance to hear a legendary interpretive singer reach deep into one of pop music’s richest songbooks, and to refashion its contents in her own image.
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Oliver Twist
2018 - it’s more convincing as a whole than anything Dylan’s done since Love and Theft. Which deserves immense respect.
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All Music
she's as strong and compelling an interpretive vocalist as you're likely to hear in this day and age, and given a set of great songs, she can work magic with ease
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Relix
2018 - Bettye LaVette approaches her album of Bob Dylan covers the same way that she always makes a song hers: by burrowing deep inside, then finding her way out from the bottom up.
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Financial Times
2018 - although the venture is familiar, the songs themselves are reinterpreted with originality
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Black Grooves
2018 - Things Have Changed offers us the best of both worlds—Bob Dylan’s ageless classics and Bettye Lavette’s endless soul stylings—proving to us that even though time marches on, some things remain eternal and relevant, no matter what.
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Paste Magazine
2018 - the great American soul singer reminds us just how fruitful reinvented songs can be in the right hands
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Blues Magazine
this is the first-time she has delivered an entire album dedicated to the material of one writer-musician. The result is a minor masterpiece of nuanced interpretation and innovation.
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High Res Audio
The album Things Have Changed offers a thrilling journey from start to finish through the world of Bob Dylan seen from the planet of the great soul-lady Bettye LaVette.
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Albumism
2018 - She delivers all twelve tracks with the conviction of living and the gratitude of seeing each day.
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WFPK
2018 - Things Have Changed is a masterpiece of interpretation of one of the greatest songwriters alive, by one of the greatest soul singers alive.
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Robert Christgau
2018 - Sure this Dylan has "soul"—reservoirs of empathy and spiritual mojo the Dylan we know could only gesture at, cut with a deep seam of the sardonic skepticism that never leaves him alone and finished off with a range, texture, and definition beyond the capabilities of his aging larynx. But the invention goes deeper than that.
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AP News
2018 - LaVette and the band take liberties with the songs — changing or dropping lyrics, altering melodies, updating moods — but the reassessments achieve their purpose: unburdened from a specific Dylan album or period, their kinship is clear and undeniable.
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The Detroit News
2018 - Dylan’s lyrics and melodies filtered through the remarkable vessel that is LaVette, meaning that each word, every note sounds as if it were torn from her heart.
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City Beat
2018 - Bettye LaVette doesn’t so much interpret the songs she covers as she psychoanalyzes them — and, in the process, herself. Seriously, that’s how much thought she puts into her artistry.
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Chicago Reader
Within the sleek blues-rock arrangements shaped by a band that includes Jordan, bassist Pino Palladino, and longtime Dylan guitarist Larry Campbell, she emphasizes a more elemental emotional thrust than the songwriter does.
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Hi Fi News
Even the less-known tracks here are illuminated by the recording, band and voice, meaning this isn’t just another Dylan covers album – it’s in a class of its own.
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Muddy Water Magazine
Bettye Lavette has done the impossible: she’s taken Bob Dylan’s persona, his Nobel lyrics, to a whole other level.
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It's a Highway Song
2018 - The first thing heard on the album is the sound of LaVette taking charge.
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Top 100 Canadian
2018 - the arrangements and playing are so fresh, it would be worth hearing these reinterpretations of the Dylan material with almost any vocalist, they are that good
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