Bettye LaVette, “Things Have Changed” (Verve)- Bettye Lavette’s first album on a major record label in many a long year finds the soul veteran re-imagining some choice moments from Bob Dylan’s illustrious back catalogue, with predictably impressive results. Time-honoured ditties such as “It Ain’t Me Babe,” “Mama, You Been On My Mind” and “The Times They Are A-Changin'” are given a whole new lease of life in the process, with Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards guesting on another of the stand-out tracks, the still sadly all too timely “Political World,” from Dylan’s 1989 album, “Oh Mercy.”