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Examples
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But while the object of his affections is busy "tryin ta study by the pool", Drake is competing for the title of R&B's Most Anaesthetised.
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I used to be called an R&B singer and we then we got pushed into a category of blues singer, she said.
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I used to be called an R&B singer and we then we got pushed into a category of blues singer, she said.
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But I also want to reinvent myself, which is why I do a little bit of R&B, which is why I got Lil Wayne on a song in this album.
News 2011
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Looking back at it today, she says, the album now viewed as a lost soul music classic faced obstacles that thwarted its release: recorded in mono, LaVette was also overshadowed by Atlantic's R&B star, Aretha Franklin, and, she surmises, "my voice was too hard to accept."
Art Levine: Amid Dreary Concert Season, Bettye LaVette's Triumphant Return Art Levine 2010
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The praise has been so overwhelming for LaVette since she emerged from years of obscurity following her one top-ten R&B hit in 1962 that at first it may all seem like hype.
Art Levine: Amid Dreary Concert Season, Bettye LaVette's Triumphant Return Art Levine 2010
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He felt that LaVette, although an unknown with no ties to the Who, could serve as a way to connect their rock and roll with its R&B roots.
Art Levine: Amid Dreary Concert Season, Bettye LaVette's Triumphant Return Art Levine 2010
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"I was singing R&B in '62 before you were born and your mama, too," she sang.
Art Levine: Amid Dreary Concert Season, Bettye LaVette's Triumphant Return Art Levine 2010
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That was a twist on the original British invasion of the 60s, when young white rockers covered the R&B songs of artists they revered, crowding the original performers off the airwaves.
Art Levine: Amid Dreary Concert Season, Bettye LaVette's Triumphant Return Art Levine 2010
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She even recalls being on a tour with some Motown stars and a young Otis Redding after "These Arms of Mine" became an R&B hit in the early '60s, but before he became a superstar.
Art Levine: Amid Dreary Concert Season, Bettye LaVette's Triumphant Return Art Levine 2010
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