BETTYE LAVETTE Tell Me A Lie FROM 82-SOUNDS LIKE IT CAME FROM MUSCLE SHOALS

A VG PLUS LP ON MOTOWN 6000ML

FROM 1982 AND STILL WITH SHRINK WRAP OVER COVER!

PRODUCED BY STEVE BUCKINGHAM AND RECORDED IN NASHVILLE AND LOS ANGELES

TRACKS AS SHOWN ON THE LABEL PHOTOS

BACKGROUND INFO FROM ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
Muskegon, MI, native Bettye LaVette began her long career at the age of 16 with Detroit's Lupine and Northern imprints before being snapped up by Atlantic where she scored her first hit, "My Man -- He's a Lovin' Man." She spent the next 20 years shuffling from one independent to another, and even participated in a three-year run of the musical Bubbling Brown Sugar on Broadway. She eventually signed to Motown in 1981, where she cut this underrated masterpiece of a soul album in 1982. Tell Me a Lie may have been released on the Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based label, but it was cut halfway across the country in a country music studio in Nashville with producer Steve Buckingham, and sounded more like it came from Muscle Shoals than Detroit. The first thing is that it sounds so out of its time. Soul in the 1980s had been following the paths of disco and neo-funk: Motown's own stable included hitmakers like DeBarge, the Dazz Band, and Rick James, while the label's longtime artists were still cutting some hits, though Diana Ross had left for RCA and Marvin Gaye was soon to depart for Columbia. So this strange concoction hit the shelves, scored some great reviews, but was out of the mainstream despite being a solid soul date. Buckingham was smart: he allowed LaVette to chose from about 30 songs, and he cut her vocals live from the floor of his Nashville studio in front of a rhythm section. That feel permeates every note of this ten-song set.The album's strongest tracks are straight-up soul burners. There's the opener, "Right in the Middle (Of Falling in Love)," penned by Sam Dees; an updated "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (with killer Fender Rhodes work, a funky bassline, and a shimmering synth line in the backdrop just below the strings); and the killer read of the title track (by Mickey Buckins and Barbara Wyrick), which had been cut by a number of country artists such as Janie Fricke and Lynn Anderson as well as by soul singer Louise Freeman. This version leaves the rest in the dust. A more modern soul tune, "I Like It Like That" (another Wyrick number) was a model for the Pointer Sisters hits of the era. The one nod to true contemporary dancefloor and radio fashion is "I Can't Stop," written by Buckins with Randy McCormick, but it falls flat -- and did upon release, since it didn't even chart as the set's second single. On an album full of anomalies, the track "Suspicions" was another one; it had been a minor hit for one of its co-writers, the late country star Eddie Rabbitt, but here it's pure quiet storm. This set only got to number 48 and spent only five weeks on the chart, but it sold reasonably well, and time has only proven it deserved better than it got.

COVER STOCK STILL WITH WHAT APPEARS TO BE THE ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP INTACT. CORNERS WITH SMALL ROUGH SPOTS AND OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON POINT. NOTWITHSTANDING, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, SO PLEASE DO LOOK AT THE COVER PHOTOS TO ASCERTAIN COVER CONDITION.

VIRGIN SPINDLE HOLE. THE HIGH LUSTER VINYL BLANK WITH A VERY FEW LIGHT AND FINE SURFACE RUB SCUFF MARKS AND PLAY LINES UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT AND ASSIDUOUS EXAMINATION. WE'VE TEST PLAYED THIS LP BY SAMPLING EACH TRACK 2-3 TIMES ON A VPI TURNTABLE WITH A GRADO REFERENCE ONE WOOD CARTRIDGE WITHOUT NOTICE OF THE ABOVE ITEMS AND SOUNDING QUITE FINE HERE.

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