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MAVIS STAPLES
receives two Grammy
nominations
“BEAUTIFUL STRANGERS”
nominated for best
American roots performance
“GODSPEED”
nominated for best
Americana performance
Hear both on new album
SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD’
out now
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Photo – Elizabeth De La Piedra
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“One of music’s mightiest, most vital voices” – Rolling Stone
“Mavis Staples has built a life on singing about what is right.” – NPR Music
“Mavis Staples’s vocal dynamism, marrying the spiritual and the sensual, is intact –
as growling and skin-tingling as ever.” – Wall Street Journal
“Staples maintains a peer approval rating roughly on par with sunny days and ice cream cones. In an age of walls, she continues to see only bridges.” – The New Yorker
“Staples is one of those giants on whose shoulders a new generation of artists stands.” –Chicago Tribune
“Mavis continues setting the world to rights with one of the best albums of her triumphant second act.” – MOJO, ★★★★★
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Music icon and national treasure Mavis Staples was nominated for two GRAMMY’s for performances on her new album ‘Sad And Beautiful World’, out now. Her renditions of the Kevin Morby song “Beautiful Strangers” (Best American Roots Performance) and Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed” (Best Americana Performance) were both nominated.
“For a world stricken by injustice, uncertainty and loneliness, Staples has again delivered a soundtrack that meets the moment,” Associated Press has declared. Rolling Stone added: “The album further cements Staples alongside Bettye Lavette and Willie Nelson in the pantheon of great American song interpreters still doing great work later in life.”
On Monday last week, Staples gave a moving performance of “Human Mind” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a track co-written for Mavis by Hozier and Allison Russell.
Produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee) ‘Sad And Beautiful World’ shows that love is a choice and a force all its own. The album is a litany of prayer, of Mavis breathing life into these songs. “I just have to deliver the compassion I feel,” she says. “I want to share the song the way I feel it.”
Watch it HERE
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‘SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD’
1. Chicago
2. Beautiful Strangers
3. Sad And Beautiful World
4. Human Mind
5. Hard Times
6. Godspeed
7. We Got To Have Peace
8. Anthem
9. Satisfied Mind
10. Everybody Needs Love
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Photo – Elizabeth De La Piedra
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