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Mavis Staples: We'll Never Turn Back CD
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Notes: Personnel: Mavis Staples (vocals); Ry Cooder (guitar, mandolin); Mike Elizondo (piano); Jim Keltner (drums); Joachim Cooder (percussion); Betty Fikes, Charles Neblett, Rutha Harris (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Martin Pradler. Liner Note Author: Rep. John Lewis. Recording information: Sound City Studio, Van Nuys, CA. Author: Mavis Staples. Photographer: David Bartlett. Arrangers: Ry Cooder; Joachim Cooder; Mavis Staples. Mavis Staple's 2007 album, WE'LL NEVER TURN BACK is a stunning achievement...
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We'll Never Turn Back
From the liner notes, by John Lewis: When I listen to this music, it takes me back. It takes me back to the red clay hills of Georgia, to the Black Belt of Alabama, and the Delta of Mississippi. It takes me back to the moans and groans and pains of an oppressed people yearning for freedom. It takes me back to the time when hundreds and thousands of us decided we were "sick and tired of being sick and tired," as Fannie Lou Hamer said. It takes me back to the days when ordinary people inspired by a...
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Down Beat (p.53) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Her singing has never lost the crazy potency that it had when she was younger, and it's still as beautiful and haunting as ever on this new CD."
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Mavis Staples We'll Never Turn Back
For over fifty years, Mavis Staples has been a national treasure, working her vocal magic on the highways and byways of gospel, folk and soul music. With both her family group, the Staple Singers, and as a solo artist in her own right she has helped to define much of what is righteous and soulful in American music. In the early 1960s, the Staple Singers began to work with Dr. Martin Luther King singing in support of the Civil Rights movement.
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Ry Cooder and his roots band to accompany them. Cooder produced the set, but his gift is the ability to retain in their entirety the voices of the performers when he works with them. Mavis may not have the shouting power she once had, but the conviction and expression in her voice have not wavered an inch. She's still got plenty in her pipes, and We'll Never Turn Back is the proof. Cooder 's compadres are son Joachim on percussion, drummer Jim Keltner , and bassist Mike Elizando . The song choices...
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