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review of "Let Me Down Easy" complimented the song's "driving beat" and LaVette's "outstanding wailing vocal performance." In 2006, music journalist Bill
Friskics-Warren described it as "a gloriously anguished record aggravated by nagging syncopation, astringent strings, and a stinging blues guitar
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Gleason, Holly (December 2012). "Hunger Games: After a 50-year journey of near-hits, brushes with stardom and countless tales of sex, drugs and soul music, singer Bettye LaVette is finally getting her due".
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Let Me Down Easy" / "What I Don't Know Won't Hurt Me
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232:Dale Warren
220:Don Gardner
124:Don Gardner
118:Producer(s)
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1417:Categories
1282:Retrieved
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747:New Jersey
651:Lehi, Utah
600:no00-65708
550:References
450:LaVette –
374:electropop
317:Funkadelic
256:Hootenanny
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1253:March 25,
1248:0006-2510
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1216:Billboard
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1170:March 25,
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96:Calla
91:Label
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