Soul-diva/Jammys alumnus Bettye Lavette has teamed up with an unlikely group for her next studio album: the Drive-By Truckers. The group of southern-rock revivalists will back Lavette on her forthcoming album, The Scene of the Crime. Recorded at Alabama’s FAME Studios, the disc marks Lavette’s return to the Muscle Shoals-area, the location where her 1972 masterpiece Child of the Seventies was recorded and--inexplicably--shelved before anyone heard it. Lavette found her unlikely collaborators through Muscle Shoals area mainstay bassist David Hood, whose son Patterson Hood fronts the Drive-By Truckers. The elder Hood also appears on The Scene of the Crime, Lavette’s first album since her 2005 comeback, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise. The disc includes contributions from veteran keyboardist Spooner Oldham and songs by Elton John and Willie Nelson. The Scene of the Crime will be released September 24 on Anti- records.