Billboard — Last year, Mavis Staples released a revelatory collection of protest songs (“We’ll Never Turn Back”) that, though such a thing was hardly needed, reaffirmed her vitality in the current music scene. “Hope at the Hideout” is her victory lap, a joyous house party that benefits from a wonderful alignment of the stars: It was recorded in her return to a cozy, sold-out blues house in Staples’ Chicago hometown and released on Election Day. At 69, Staples’ power-train voice is close to rugged perfection throughout, and she’s wonderfully fired up. And while the studio versions of these tracks are driven by a singular purpose, their live cousins shimmer and shake. Nowhere is that clearer than on a lively and soulful “For What It’s Worth,” a soaring “This Little Light” and the singularly majestic “We Shall Not Be Moved.”
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Mavis Staples is amazing.
If you love her, listen to the rest of the Anti- artists on their sampler. It’s great.
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