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A woman like me / Bettye LaVette ; with David Ritz.
- Title
- A woman like me / Bettye LaVette ; with David Ritz.
- Author
- LaVette, Bettye, 1946-
- Publication
- New York : Blue Rider Press, c2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | ML420.L258 A3 2012 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Ritz, David.
- Description
- 262 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes discography and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780399159381
- 039915938X
- LCCN
- ^^2012026041
- OCLC
- 778419241
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library