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We'll Never Turn Back (CD)

By: Mavis Staples (Artist)

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Mavis Staples Artist Snapshot:

A lead vocalist in the renowned gospel group, the Staple Singers, from a very young age, Mavis Staples has had a career that has spanned more than five decades. During that time, Staples was also deeply involved in the 1960s civil rights movement, and later worked with R&B/pop icons such as Curtis Mayfield and Prince. Though her solo work is often overlooked, her post-millennial recordings have found her in fine form, particularly 2007's much-lauded WE'LL NEVER TURN BACK.

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DISC 1 for We'll Never Turn Back (CD) Album By Mavis Staples (Artist)
1   Down In Mississippi
2   Eyes On The Prize
3   We Shall Not Be Moved
4   In The Mississippi River
5   On My Way
6   This Little Light Of Mine
7   99 And 1/2
8   My Own Eyes
9   Turn Me Around
10   We'll Never Turn Back
11   I'll Be Rested
12   Jesus Is On The Main Line
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.116) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007".
Q (p.129) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n album that aims to rekindle the spirit of the '60s civil rights movement....Persuasive..."
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."
Dirty Linen (p.56) - "These are songs of hope and protest....The power, strength, and heartfelt sincerity in the delivery drives the disc home."
Living Blues (p.43) - "WE'LL NEVER TURN BACK features Staples applying her throaty, emotive contralto to a program that includes spirituals..."
No Depression (pp.78-79) - "In purely musical effect, the power, passion and conviction that permeate this project cannot be denied. Nor resisted."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n assemblage of liberation cries, as passionate and relevant today as then..."

Title Note

Mavis Staple's 2007 album, WE'LL NEVER TURN BACK is a stunning achievement from one of soul and gospel's most revered singers. Produced by Ry Cooder, the album is built around freedom songs of the civil rights movement--some are traditional ("Eyes on the Prize"), some are appropriated for the theme ("99 and 1/2"), while others are originals ("I'll Be Rested"). As much a celebration of hard-won freedom as a reminder of past and current injustices, the album features stirring gospel choir vocals from both Ladysmith Black Mombazo and original members of the SNCC Freedom Singers.

Yet the album is first and foremost a platform for Mavis Staples's stirring voice, one that is as much a liberating force as any protest. Cooder, to his credit, keeps things appropriately raw and immediate, and the band always positions Staples at the front of the line. As deeply moving as any album made in 2007, WE'LL NEVER TURN BACK is at once a call to arms, a new cadence for a new march, and the celebratory soundtrack for the jubilee on the other side of the mountain.

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4 out of 5 stars ****, February 11, 2008
By Lindsey
Well Never Turn Back is comprised of beautfully, haunting melodics and at times uneasing riffs that seem to always catch your attention.

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