{"id":3680,"date":"2010-12-27T18:51:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T02:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2010-12-27T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T02:51:12","slug":"made-my-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/27\/made-my-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Made My Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Bob,<\/p>\n

A short note of thanks as this year comes to a close for recognizing Bettye LaVette back in your June 1 column<\/a>. <\/p>\n

You wrote everything that I know to be true of Bettye and the album, just as if you’d been walking in my shoes for the previous 18 months\u00c2\u00a0 — from the time I invited her on the Kennedy Center Honors in the Fall of 2008 (after seeing her on YouTube. . .\u00c2\u00a0 seriously, no joke), through the conceiving and recording of the album and up until its release in late May.<\/p>\n

You completely understood her talent, her journey, and what the album meant for people who still love to buy CDs.<\/p>\n

I must write that your acknowledgement of the album was the single biggest blessing to come her way following its release.\u00c2\u00a0 All of the television appearances that I arranged for her, the interviews, the profiles — they were all facilitated by your acknowledgement of her so early on.<\/p>\n

I thank you for your curiosity and intelligence — and for boosting Bettye’s trajectory towards being recognized more widely by her peers and audiences around the country.<\/p>\n

Sincerely and Happy New Year,<\/p>\n

Michael Stevens
Producer
Kennedy Center Honors
Interpretations: the British Rock Songbook<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Dear Bob, A short note of thanks as this year comes to a close for recognizing Bettye LaVette back in your June 1 column. You wrote everything that I know to be true of Bettye and the album, just as if you’d been walking in my shoes for the previous 18 months\u00c2\u00a0 — from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-business","category-the-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-Xm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3680\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}