Music / soul

Livin' on a high note


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Pitchfork

d. 18. Feb. 2016

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Stephen M. Deusner

d. 18. Feb. 2016

"Bearing all this weight can't be easy for anyone, but with that divine voice of hers, in fact, Staples seems uniquely suited for it. And Livin' on a High Note suggests she may even be happy to have that responsibility, if only because it reminds her that happy doesn't have to mean complacent".


DownBeat

2016 March

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Jeff Johnson

2016 March

"After recording two highly acclaimed albums with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and a 2015 EP with budding soul-blues star Son Little, Mavis Staples again ventures outside of the soul-gospel realm for Livin' On A High Note. This time it's folk-Americana hero M. Ward (She & Him, Monsters of Folk) at the controls, and the results are just as satisfying as with the Tweedyproduced You Are Not Alone (2010) and One True Vine (2013).".



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