You Are Not Alone
Album • Sep 14 / 2010 • 13 songs, 45m 13s
Gospel
Rhythm & Blues
Soul
Popular
Highly Rated
8.2
/ 10
Working with Jeff Tweedy, the soul veteran sounds energetic and artful on a collection of covers and re-imagined hits from her past.
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Listeners to Mavis Staples’ You Are Not Alone, the latest album from the Chicago gospel legend who achieved crossover success in the early ’70s with The Staple Singers, might at first think they’d slipped an old record into the stereo by mistake. You Are Not Alone opens with “Don’t Knock,” a track written by Staples’…