Man I love Betty Davis.

Something about that freaky attitude that makes the music sound so eternally vital (and just a little scary). Maybe it’s just what the seventies did to people- brought out all these edges. And that’s what we hunger for, the stuff you can’t fake, the stuff that even if it’s 90% persona-only that someone could pull it off.

People talk star quality like it’s something we see on saturday night tv shows.

This is Betty Davis-she married miles (and was too much for him) got him into rock and funk (the birth of fusion baby!!), wrote songs that went places few have dared to go since, pulled off that ‘difficult’ seventies space amazon look and was never the victim.

Well almost never.

Her music’s just been re-issued and there are some great articles about her around and this time she will be getting proper royalties for the first time, you should buy it.

Really.

Betty Davis-Your Mama Wants Ya Back

Ps special thanks to moistworks, firstly for being generally wonderful, but also for being specifically wonderful in making me want to find out more about the gal.