SOUNDTRACK: BETTY LaVETTE-Tiny Desk Concert #61 (May 21, 2010).
Another peculiar Tiny Desk is this one from Betty LaVette. It’s only peculiar because, for licensing reasons, they can only show one of the three songs she sang.
I don’t know much about LaVette, but I immediately loved her voice–rough and sultry and amazingly powerful. The only song here is her take on “It Don’t Come Easy,” and it’s really great.
With only her voice and guitarist Alan Hill accompanying her, she manages to bring amazing depth to this song.
The other two songs were: “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” and “Nights in White Satin.” While I’m not that interested in “Sun,” I would love to hear her take on “Nights.”
The notes say that at this time they don’t have the rights to play the songs. It has been five years, and I imagine they are not really pursuing those rights any longer.
[READ: July 28, 2015] Curses! Foiled Again
Since I recently posted the Foiled review I had to run out and get the sequel (also on First Second books)
After a quick “Previously,” we get reintroduced to Aliera’s weapon and its glowing gem and we learn that Avery is beautiful on the outside but an actual troll within. As with the previous book, the panels are all gray scale until she runs into the mystical beasties.
The problem with this book is that Aliera is mad at Avery for secretly being a troll (fair enough), but there is nothing he can do to get her to listen to him. So it is actually rather tedious that for the whole book he keeps trying to tell her things but she refuses to listen. (more…)
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