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MAVIS STAPLES - We'll Never Turn Back
| The Independent | | Mavis Staples believes We'll Never Turn Back to be the greatest work of her illustrious career - and though her family's Seventies Stax recordings remain unsurpassed, she's undoubtedly correct as regards her solo work, none of which has captured the light and shade of her voice with quite the subtle acuity that producer Ry Cooder achieves here....full text |
| | Bullz-eye | | There was a time, not all that long ago, when the breadth of most people's knowledge of the Staple Singers was limited to “I'll Take You There” (and maybe “Respect Yourself” and “Let's Do It Again”), but the passage of decades – not to mention a plethora of inferior covers – have dusted over the contributions the group made to contemporary music. And they did contribute: Aside from bringing gospel to mainstream pop audiences in the '60s, the Staple Singers – consisting of Roebuck “Pops” Staples and his children Cleotha, Pervis, Yvonne, and Mavis – were also one of the first groups to send the civil rights struggle to the radio....full text |
| | Entertainment Weekly | | The engine of '70s gospel-pop hitmakers the Staples Singers gets a rootsy makeover on We'll Never Turn Back, via a label very good at this sort of thing (Merle Haggard, Bettye LaVette). Guitarist/producer Ry Cooder's tasteful, unfussy arrangements are sometimes saved from predictability by son Joachim, whose digital loops add frisson to songs using the civil rights movement as inspiration and backdrop. But Mavis Staples' voice outshines all: rich, weathered, and full of fire, sometimes resolving in a cracked tone or a dark, knowing chuckle, her eyes still on the prize. ...full text |
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