You Are Not Alone

Working with Jeff Tweedy, the soul veteran sounds energetic and artful on a collection of covers and re-imagined hits from her past.

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’…

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Mavis Staples may not have a voice with the kind of range and pure power of an Aretha Franklin, but she understands the ins and outs of phrasing and nuance, and brings an inimitable, gritty passion to everything she sings, even into her seventies.