Music Review: Mavis Staples Emerges with Peaceful, Even-Keeled Album, ‘Sad and Beautiful World’

Mavis Staples Creates A Soul Canon All Her Own

Mavis Staples covers Frank Ocean, Leonard Cohen and more on her excellent new album

Music Review: Mavis Staples emerges with peaceful, even-keeled album, ‘Sad and Beautiful World’

Mavis Staples ' latest album hums with hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old American treasure’s raspy contralto.

Mavis Staples Sings For Unity & Action On Poignant & Powerful 'Sad and Beautiful World' (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Magazine

Apart from hip-hop and the occasional rock or country song, these times of protest and divisiveness lack the musical voices of the Civil Rights or anti-Vietnam War movements of the ‘60s.  No longer do we hear the power of those classic songs such as “We Shall Overcome,” “I Shall Not Be Moved,” Respect Yourself,” and so many others. Mavis Staples, one of the only remaining voices of that era, is still with us. Mavis, now considered the godmother …

Mavis Staples to Release New Album “Sad & Beautiful World”

Music icon Mavis Staples releases some tracks from her upcoming 14th solo album, Sad & Beautiful World As one of music’s indescribable treasures, Mavis Staples would be an automatic for an encyclopedia of influential persons in the arts during the 20th and 21st century. Though she built her career with the legendary gospel family, The Staples Singers, Mavis’ keen abilities to fully invest in any… Source