Bettye LaVette has recently won some long-overdue recognition on these shores, winning a W.C. Handy Award for her 2003 release "A Woman Like Me", and garnering tremendous critical acclaim for 2005's "I've Got My Own Hell to Raise", But Bettye should have gotten this acclaim 33 years ago, when she went to Muscle Shoals to record what was to be her debut album for Atlantic. Entitled "Child of the Seventies", and considered by Bettye to be her best work to date, the album was shelved and NEVER released in America. 22 tracks of superb 70s soul in all.
- 1 It Ain't Easy
- 2 If I Can't Be A Woman
- 3 Fortune Teller
- 4 Your Turn To Cry
- 5 Soul Tambourine
- 6 All The Black And White Children
- 7 Our Own Love Song
- 8 Ain't Nothing Gonna Change Me Now
- 9 Outside Woman
- 10 The Stealer
- 11 My Love Is Showing
- 12 Souvenirs
- 13 Waiting For Tomorrow
- 14 Livin' Life On A Shoestring
- 15 Your Turn To Cry (Mono Single Version)
- 16 Soul Tambourine (Mono Single Version)
- 17 Heart Of Gold
- 18 You'll Wake Up Wiser
- 19 Here I Am
- 20 You'll Never Change
- 21 My Man - He's A Lovin' Man
- 22 Shut Your Mouth
