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Mix Picks: Betty Davis, Leon Bridges, Girlpool, Henry Horenstein - and Nothing

"Betty Davis, The Columbia Sessions, 1968-69." These rediscovered tracks by the ahead-of-her-time 1970s funk feminist/auteur behind the altogether awesome "Anti Love Song" were produced by Teo Macero and Davis' trumpet-player husband, Miles, who was trying out some jazz-rock ideas in advance of recording his own Bitches Brew.

"Betty Davis, The Columbia Sessions, 1968-69."

These rediscovered tracks by the ahead-of-her-time 1970s funk feminist/auteur behind the altogether awesome "Anti Love Song" were produced by Teo Macero and Davis' trumpet-player husband, Miles, who was trying out some jazz-rock ideas in advance of recording his own

Bitches Brew

.

Leon Bridges. The Fort Worth, Texas, retro R&B stylist isn't the most dynamic of the current wave of retro-soul singers, but he's an engaging entertainer whose debut album, Coming Home, is full of rock-solid songs that should keep a massive Welcome America! crowd engaged while waiting to watch explosions in the sky. Monday on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Henry Horenstein, "Histories: Tales From the '70s." Deeply empathetic black-and-white portraits of stock-car drivers, jockeys, and country music stars, including Bill Monroe, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton, in this coffee-table book from Boston photographer Horenstein, whose "Honky Tonk" show was at Gallery 339 in Philadelphia in 2013. $60, Horenstein.com.

Girlpool. The L.A.-born, Philadelphia-based, flinty-eyed duo of Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker, still doing dates behind last year's tender and tough Before the World Was Big. Wednesday at PhilaMOCA.

Nothing. Hometown record- release show for Tired of Tomorrow, the sophomore release from star-crossed Philadelphian Domenic Palermo's so-loud and so- pretty shoegaze band. Friday at Union Transfer.