So proud to perform Eddie Hinton’s “Everybody Needs ❤️ Love” —Muscle Shoals guitar player and songwriter, but DBT does it!) #drivebytruckers #bettesmithmusic #bettesmith #everybodyneedslove #love (at Festival Bluescazorla) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jZX0WHj9P/?igshid=16y4dm5v4s30e

Bette Smith

The Good, The Bad, The Bette (2020) … strong vocal performances …

#BetteSmith

Can’t take another day searching for my heart in the eyes of strangers. Get it, #bettesmith @biglegalmess #vinyligclub https://ift.tt/2KCPKdA

Eddie Hinton was a Tuscaloosa native who passed away 1995. He was a hot picking guitar player, prolific songwriter, studio engineer in the Muscle Shoals tradition in Alabama. We like to honor him by singing his songs. Thanks Drive-By Truckers for teaching us this great song, #Everybody#needs#love #southernrock#soul#blues #bettesmith#gijon# (at Semana Negra.) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzt1bYZHoYe/?igshid=m2gror0pohzl

“There is perhaps no bigger struggle in an artist’s heart than the battle to find both self-expression and parental love. R&B singer Bette Smith found her gift at age five, in church, but her choir director father taught her that making money for performing music was the devil’s work. An indie label, Big Legal Mess, in Oxford, Mississippi, records artists like Robert Finley, the service veteran and former carpenter who finally received recognition for his music in his later years. Seems like a label that would understand Bette Smith, who first chose a Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Arts Therapy. At last, her vibrant recording debut is here to bring healing and happiness to fans of singers like Sharon Jones, Betty Wright and Naomi Shelton. Producer Jimbo Mathus, a roots music connoisseur ...”— Annie Dinerman, excerpt from Elmore Magazine article #pain#anxiety#feelings#elmoremagazine #nopainnogain#bettesmith#bettesmithmusic#ladysingstheblues💙 (at Barcelona, Catalonia) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByXT__Qn3ob/?igshid=1l6nlqf2dq7jr

#bettesmith #resist https://www.instagram.com/p/CBEJJLiDSpP/?igshid=x71z66m3uagb

Check out our Official Music Video dropping today featuring Jesse Johnson of The Time#prince #jessejohnsonrevue #maroon5 #memories#blacklivesmatter✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #bettesmith https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=3bIBpej-Oxw https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=3bIBpej-Oxw (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-SgQhDGAA/?igshid=r4xk9d49enbj

Dedicated to all those souls who have died needless deaths at the hands of police brutality#justiceforgeorgefloyd#RIP🙏🙏🙏 #bettesmith#prayforpeace 🙏#newmusicrelease 🙏check out our latest video: NewsTheUrbanMusicScene.com (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAz-TyEjSxg/?igshid=6dxd0svonws

Dedicated to the over 100,000 Souls fallen from the Corona Virus (Covid19) Check out your Spotify today! I’m so honored to be collaborating on a “Memories” project with the great guitarist Jesse Johnson courtesy of #cleopatrarecords 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 “Jay Jesse Johnson is an American blues-rock guitarist with more than 40 years in the music industry. As of 2019, Johnson has recorded on 24 albums. Jesse Woods Johnson (born June 1, 1960) is an American musician best known as the guitarist in the original lineup of the Time (more recently known as the Original 7ven).”—Wikipedia.com #prince#jessejohnsonrevue##thetime #bettesmith #bettesmithmusic#memories#maroon5#gratefulami#rip #RIP🙏🙏🙏 (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAxENpnDFNx/?igshid=lfyacrqtrxfd

Performing in Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸 It feels like a homecoming. There’s an instant feeling of family reunion. They talk to me like they met their little sister. It’s the same love ❤️ in New York, Nashville, or Spain.”— (Photography: Joe Herrero) #gratefulami #salaelsol #salaelsolmadrid #Bettesmith #magicalmoments #bettesmithmusic#joeherrerophoto #gigphotography (at Madrid, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAKUYLeDsE6/?igshid=hkhvb1xdnbjs

Order now: This compassionate, cutting edge, American designer who resides in the south Caribbean island of Trinidad is making use of his massive talents for New Yorkers and indeed for the entire world (he’s also my nephew and I will be personally donating all my orders to essential workers and health care workers of Brooklyn Methodist Hospital!) Pre-order on his website, available starting April 23: iamwilliammcIntosh.com #prayforavaccine #andthistooshallpass2020 #staystrong#bettesmith (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_SMtnjjzKI/?igshid=1kyp1wto9odkk

“Knowing how to be Solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” —Bell Hooks ##thecovid19blues#bettesmith #wereallinthistogether#andthistooshallpass2020#bettesmithmusic https://www.instagram.com/p/B-hb6FVBSe-/?igshid=5yuhn8tqd0ye

Note of appreciation to Patterson Hood, Matt Patton and the Drive-By Truckers band: Thank you for all the time and effort you gave to me. Dear mentors, you are always so helpful and I want you to know that I appreciate you so much. Thanks! —Bette (Patterson Hood performing vocal tracks for our 2nd Album, TBS)(Also notes of thanks to Bronson Tew👀) ( And Danny Lerner🤛🏻)!#drivebytruckersaremyheros #bettesmithmusic#dialbacksound #mississippi #ihaveadream #grateful#bronsonmestizo#mattpattonhateshashtags #alabama#bettesmith (at 40 Watt Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/B99MT-sBXv3/?igshid=1vxo2xbirdazm

Note of appreciation to Patterson Hood, Matt Patton and the Drive-By Truckers band: Thank you for all the time and effort you gave to me. Dear mentors, you are always so helpful and I want you to know that I appreciate you so much. Thanks! —Bette (Patterson Hood performing vocal tracks for our 2nd Album, TBS)(Also notes of thanks to Bronson Tew👀) ( And Danny Lerner🤛🏻)!#drivebytruckersaremyheros #bettesmithmusic#dialbacksound #mississippi #ihaveadream #grateful#bronsonmestizo#mattpattonhateshashtags #alabama#bettesmith (at 40 Watt Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/B99MT-sBXv3/?igshid=lrfwazu02nrz

Very dear Family, Fans, and Friends: Jeremiah and Bette want you to keep safe and sound during this public health crisis. We believe in you and we ❤️ you so be kind and gentle with yourself and do at least 1 good thing for yourself every day to ride it through! #iwannabeyourhuman#bettesmith#thecovid19blues https://www.instagram.com/p/B93kMC5hSjw/?igshid=1wxh9xnuy9m68

When you’re chatting with Patterson Hood in Green Room of the Drive-By Truckers #pattersonhood #mikecooley #mattpattonhateshastags #websterhall #bettesmith#jaygarcia#drivebytruckerstour ##drivebytruckers#dbtph #dbtrockshow (photography by Danny Lerner) (at Webster Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Jn2qxBV5X/?igshid=1pg5dk73k1da8