2005年に発表したアルバム「I've Got My Own Hell to Raise」に、コステロが、
'You've got a singer here who is willing to stretch and not content to live in the safety zone. Bettye Lavette's voice is the superb line that connects Lucinda Williams' 'Joy' to Dolly Parton's 'Little Sparrow' via numbers by Sinead O'Connor and Joan Armatrading. Those songs never sounded better and neither has one of R&B's greatest under-acknowledged vocalists.'