Mavis Staples You Are Not Alone (2-LPs W/CD)
Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Staples' voice is a rich, liquid wonder, and Tweedy's production -- thick with guitar tremolo -- is faithful to her funk and gospel work with the Staples Singers."
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Vinyl LP Details
- Number of Records: 2
- Released: September 15, 2010
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Anti, Inc.
Description by OLDIES.com:
This record, produced by Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) is about connection, about reaching out to someone through the power of music. What Staples and Tweedy achieved is possibly the album of Staples' career - a warm, powerful, and fervent collection of brilliantly chosen and interpreted songs.
Entertainment Reviews:
Rolling Stone
3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Staples' voice is a rich, liquid wonder, and Tweedy's production -- thick with guitar tremolo -- is faithful to her funk and gospel work with the Staples Singers."Entertainment Weekly - p.139
"[S]tellar...with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy producing 71-year-old gospel great Staples." -- Grade: A-Uncut - p.106
4 stars out of 5 -- "The stripped-down, Muscle Shoals-style arrangements give Mavis space to do her thing, and the song choices are spot-on..."CMJ
"Staples' voice has aged remarkably well, and the rasps and crackles come in all the right places..."Living Blues - p.40
"Mavis applies her throaty contralto with consummate passion to a mix of spiritual and secular material that includes a hauntingly harmonized a cappella reading of 'Wonderful Savior'..."Billboard (p.40) - "The standout is Staples' tear-stained take of Randy Newman's 'Losing You.' She wrings every bit of emotion out of the song without seemingly batting an eye."
Mojo (Publisher) - p.93
4 stars out of 5 -- "Little Milton's gutsy soul'n'blues 'We're Gonna Make It' is delivered unequivocally as a hymnal to universal peace; Mavis's vocal performance, intense, deep, almost a growl at times, and quite simply jaw-dropping."Mojo (Publisher) - p.56
Ranked #12 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2010" -- "The results: exciting, impassioned, essential."Pitchfork (Website) - "'You Are Not Alone, as its title suggests, intends to be a salve in hard times, and Staples rallies her most sympathetic delivery, as if comforting listeners individually."
Record Collector (magazine) - p.94
3 stars out of 5 -- "'You Don't Knock' is a deft gospel number that sets things off well with an uplifting call-and-response passage."Tracks:
- 1.Don't Knock
- 2.You Are Not Alone
- 3.Downward Road
- 4.In Christ There Is No East or West
- 5.Creep Along Moses
- 6.Losing You
- 7.I Belong to the Band
- 8.Last Train
- 9.Only the Lord Knows
- 10.Wrote a Song for Everyone
- 11.We're Gonna Make It
- 12.Wonderful Savior
- 13.Too Close / On My Way to Heaven
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 43,996
- UPC: 045778707614
- Shipping Weight: 0.50/lbs (approx)
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