On the title track of this remarkable collection of Bob Dylan covers, Betty LaVette wraps her voice – full of grit, brass and soul when she started recording at 16 in 1962; worn and sharpened by experience now at 72 – around a lyric about sitting on the lap of strange man with pale skin and an assassin's eye. The way she tells it, that man could be the song's author or a villain in an epic of
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Bettye LaVette Dives Deep Into Bob Dylan Songbook on 'Things Have Changed'
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