Soul singer Bettye LaVette filmed video in Detroit bar The Locker Room

The rooster has come home to roost, so to speak. Bettye LaVette, a
soul singing staple, has reinterpreted a Sir Elton John classic for a
video filmed here in her hometown. Maybe you’ve heard of it – The
Locker Room.

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Bettye LaVette, the 45-plus-year veteran of American soul music, has filmed a new video for her poignant re-interpretation of the Elton John classic “Talking Old Soldiers,” a somber gem from John’s Tumbleweed Connection that appears on LaVette’s Grammy nominated The Scene of the Crime. It was filmed by Lex Halaby (The Frames, Atmosphere) in The Locker Room, a bar in her hometown of Detroit, MI, where she spent many a night feeling the things that appealed to her in the lyrics of the song. LaVette says she chose to record “Talking Old Soldiers,” because “it is a true segment of my life.”

View the video here.