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A Woman Like Me is a blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

/soul

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

album released by Bettye LaVette

Bettye LaVette

Bettye LaVette is an American soul singer-songwriter who made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, with her album, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise...

in 2003.

Track listing

"Serves Him Right" (Buddy Johnson, Dennis Walker) 4:19
"The Forecast" (Walker, David Plenn) 5:02
"Thru The Winter" (Walker) 5:49
"Right Next Door" (Walker) 4:30
"When The Blues Catch Up To You" (Walker, Alan Mirikitani) 4:44
"Thinkin' 'Bout You" 4:59
"A Woman Like Me
A Woman Like Me (Bettye LaVette song)
A Woman Like Me is a song from Bettye LaVette's 2003 album of the same name....

" (Walker, Greg Brown, Linda Thomas) 5:53
"It Ain't Worth It After A While" (Walker, Mirikitani) 5:21
"When A Woman's Had Enough" (Walker, Mirikitani) 4:16
"Salt On My Wounds" (Walker, Mirikitani) 4:39
"Close As I'll Get To Heaven" (Rene Gayer) 4:54
"Hey, Hey Baby (Bettye's Blues)" (Bettye LaVette) 4:18

Personnel

Bettye LaVette: Vocal
Cynthia Bass: Vocal Backing
Alan Mirikitani: Rhythm
Rhythm guitar
Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

& Lead Guitar
Lead guitar
Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
Mike Turner: Acoustic
Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

& Rhythm Guitar
Bobby Murray: Rhythm Guitar
Rudy Robinson: Keyboards
Richard Cousins: Bass
Lee Spath: Drums
Bruce Paulson: Trombone
Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
Tom Peterson: Baritone
Baritone saxophone
The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...

& Tenor Sax
Tenor saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

; Horn Arrangements

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