Bettye LaVette sang in January at the inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial for Barack Obama.
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Performers this year include the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Bettye LaVette.
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BettyeLaVette has a favor to ask: "Somebody Pick Up My Pieces, " she pleads in a heartbreaking Willie Nelson song on her new album, Scene of the Crime.
She eventually returned to the studio with producer Joe Henry, a singer-songwriter known for his earthy stamp on records by veterans such as Solomon Burke and BettyeLaVette.