With last month’s passing of Tina Turner, it’s heartening to find another great voice still going strong, the gravelly soul delivery of the 77-year-old veteran with bluesy funk and candid killer lyrics. The songs are penned by another veteran, the songwriter Randall Bramblett, and LaVette, whose first single was in 1962, is joined by a host of great musicians including Steve Winwood, Pino Palladino and Ray Parker Jr, but it’s the singer who really carries this fire and focus of this album, hitting the notes with perfect, gravelly emotion. The lyrics are no-nonsense and self-detrimental, but passionate and still full of vim. “My mojo’s busted I ain’t got a spare …. I ain’t got no plan B, I’m still working on the A … champagne and a joint would do me just fine” she sings on Plan B. “I keep on rolling, but the thrill is gone” she sings on opener See Through Me, but clearly the thrill is still very much there with this alluring, dirty blues and funk sound. Other standouts include the funk Mess About and Hard To Be A Human, Don’t Get Me Started and Lazy (And I Know It). Out on Jay Vee.
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