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bette smith

10/3/2020

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​Bette Smith   (from the album The Good, The Bad, and The Bette available on Ruf Records)
Funky beats and guitar chops usher Bette Smith into her new release holding a “Fistful of Dollars” backed by gritty Shaft-style 70’s Soul music. Soul and Rock share the bill on The Good, The Bad, & The Bette, the recent album from Bette Smith. Produced by Drive-By Trucker Mike Patton, the man behind the boards received specific instructions from the lady at the microphone, Bette Smith recalling ‘when I called on my producer Matthew Robert Patton, I told him that I wanted a Southern Rock Soul/Aretha Franklin/’I once was lost but now I’m found’ theme’. The Good, The Bad, & The Bette is modern Rock’n’Soul. The singer sinking into the role of down-trodden lover making one last plea in “Don’t Give Out on Me” buoyed by mariachi horns while her heart takes a souvenir from a tour stop in “I Felt It Too” over snarling guitar riffs. 
 
Growing up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, Bette Smith was immersed in Gospel music, singing in church at five years-old and at home to her mother’s record collection of Mahalia Jackson. Bette took the lessons of aiming for the back row into her career, The Good, The Bad & The Bette a story seen ‘through the lens of a child, and then an adult, who still wears her scars of childhood’. Fellow DBT member Patterson Hood joins Bette Smith on backing vocals for “Everybody Needs Love” while North Mississippi All Star’s Luther Dickinson brings his guitar in for “Signs and Wonders”. Abandoned by her mother, Bette Smith uses lessons learned from her dog to become long-term relationship leaning in “Human” while she bids goodbye to the mother that never said farewell to her daughter in “Whistle Stop”. Country Blues is the soundtrack backing the chorus for “Pine Belt Blues” as Bette Smith proudly wears the skin of her own choices for “I’m a Sinner”.
 
Listen and buy the music of Bette Smith from AMAZON
 
For more information, please visit the Bette Smith website
 
 

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