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Born Lori Godwin in Savannah, Tennessee, she was just a teenage flute player until she moved to Memphis and fell in, musically and romantically, with an anarchy-prone musician named Gus Nelson. He called himself Tav Falco and dubbed her Lorette Velvette; he schooled her, and they played together in his shambling roots-punk unit the Panther Burns. Velvette later worked behind North Mississippi blueswoman Jessie Mae Hemphill, whose grounding in the region’s fife-and-drum music would have an impact on Velvette’s sound; played in the Alluring Strange; co-founded the all-gal punk group the Hellcats (with whom she released an EP, 1988's "Cherry Mansion", and a full-length, 1989's "Hoodoo Train") and put out 3 solo records: "White Birds", in 1993, her most bluesy one, produced by former Box Tops/Big Star Alex Chilton, "Dream Hotel" in 1995, where dissonance starts to kick in, and "Lost Part Of Me" in 1997, where she also brilliantly covers David Bowie's "Boys Keep Swinging"; unfortunately, the label Veracity, which published all of her solo records, went belly up almost as soon as the third disc was issued.
"Rude Angel" (published in 2000) is a collection of her best songs from her 3 solo albums alongside brilliant renditions of blues numbers such as Fred McDowell’s “You Got To Moveâ€, R.L. Burnside’s “Going Down South†and Skip James’ “Special Riderâ€.
The fife-and-drum sound and later blues-based string-band styles come into play in the music of the Kropotkins, a New York–based outfit led by violinist-guitarist-banjoist Soldier (like Velvette and her ex-partner Falco, Soldier has remade himself in music: by day, he’s known as Dr. David Sulzer, assistant professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University med school), who defined the Kropotkins as his "Delta punk" band.
The musical output of the Kropotkins starts with an eponymous album in 1995, where Lorette played guitar and sang all of the songs -and also wrote one, "Something Crawling Round My Bed"-; for "Five Points Crawl", the band’s second album (2001), ex–Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker has taken the sextet’s drum chair; Lorette contributed vocals and penned 3 songs.
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