The Scene of the Crime

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The Scene of the Crime
Bettye LaVette - The Scene Of The Crime album cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2007 (2007-09-25)
Recorded FAME Studios
(Muscle Shoals, Alabama)
Water Music Recording Studio
(Hoboken, New Jersey)
Chase Park Transduction
(Athens, Georgia)
Genre Soul, R&B, blues, rock
Length41:22
Label Anti-
Producer Bettye LaVette, David Barbe, Patterson Hood
Bettye LaVette chronology
I've Got My Own Hell to Raise
(2005)
The Scene of the Crime
(2007)
Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
BBC Music (favorable) [2]
Billboard (favorable) [3]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Entertainment Weekly A− [5]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
PopMatters 7/10 [7]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [9]
The Village Voice (favorable) [10]

The Scene of the Crime is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Bettye LaVette, released in the United States on September 25, 2007 on the label ANTI-. It is a collaboration with Drive-By Truckers as backing band, Spooner Oldham on piano, and other studio musicians. The album debuted at number one on Billboard 's Top Blues Albums chart and was nominated for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I Still Want to Be Your Baby (Take Me Like I Am)" (Eddie Hinton) – 3:45
    • Originally recorded by Eddie Hinton
  2. "Choices" (Billy Yates, Mike Curtis) – 3:04
  3. "Jealousy" (Frankie Miller) – 5:36
    • Originally recorded by Frankie Miller
  4. "You Don't Know Me at All" (Don Henley, John Corey, Stan Lynch) – 3:58
    • Originally recorded by Don Henley
  5. "Somebody Pick Up My Pieces" (Willie Nelson) – 5:22
    • Originally recorded by Willie Nelson
  6. "They Call It Love" (W. T. Davidson) – 3:57
  7. "The Last Time" (John Hiatt) – 2:58
    • Originally recorded by John Hiatt
  8. "Talking Old Soldiers" (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) – 4:26
    • Originally recorded by Elton John
  9. "Before the Money Came (The Battle of Bettye LaVette)" (Bettye LaVette, Patterson Hood) – 4:30
  10. "I Guess We Shouldn't Talk About That Now" (Ed Pettersen, Kim McLean) – 3:46

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for The Scene of the Crime
Chart (2007)Peak
position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [11] 13
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [12] 46
US Top Blues Albums (Billboard) [13] 1

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References

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  2. BBC Music review
  3. Billboard review
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  5. Entertainment Weekly review
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  8. Rolling Stone review
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