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Whistle Stopper - We'll Never Turn Back
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List Price: $17.98
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Manufacturer: Anti
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0045778683024
Label: Anti
Manufacturer: Anti
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Anti
Release Date: 2007-04-24
Studio: Anti
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Summary: Profound and Moving
Comment: Mavis Staples has a voice unlike any other -- one that will give you chills, bring tears to your eyes, and inspire you. This is one of the best albums ever: powerful songs of the struggle for freedom and dignity sung with profound soul and brought up to date with a great backing band. Mavis is at the top of her form, and music doesn't come any better than that.
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Summary: It Does Not Get Any Better
Comment: Whew! There is no better voice of the Civil Rights Movement than Mavis Staples. These were the songs that gave us courage, the songs by which we kept the faith. These newer versions rock! Listen.
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Summary: Review for CD (We'll Never Turn Back)
Comment: I love this CD! Thank you for your quick response. It arrived in perfect condition. Thanks so much.
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Summary: It's STILL going on!
Comment: Thanks, Mavis! One of the few people still fighting for what is right.
This album NEEDS to be heard.
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Summary: disappointing
Comment: If this CD is a disappointment (as I found it to be), it's in part because the cast - Mavis Staples, Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner, Ladysmith Black Mambazo - gets one's expectations up so very high. But this recording, despite the caliber of the musicians, sounds surprisingly lifeless. It all seems so calculated, so produced. Mavis's voice, which (as often happens as singers age) has grown husky over the years, just doesn't have the fire it once had. Noble intentions, yes; great music, no. One keeps waiting for some fresh air, for some sort of spark, for some sense of real in-the-moment immediacy. But, sadly,it never comes.
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Editorial Reviews:
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As musical activists in the 1960s civil rights movement, the Staple Singers were powerful voices for equality and change. And more than 40 years after Pops's daughter Mavis spent a night in a West Memphis, Arkansas, jail at the behest of a racist cop, she still remembers the terror of the experience, as well as the counsel of Dr. Martin Luther King. That episode is at the centerpiece of "My Own Eyes," one of the most moving offerings on this collection of songs of racial struggle in the '50s and '60s, produced by guitarist Ry Cooder and featuring backing from the original Freedom Singers and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Throughout, the album proves both emotionally chilling and spiritually uplifting. On J.B. Lenoir's "Down in Mississippi" and Marshall Jones's "In the Mississippi River," for example, Cooder makes fine use of pounding percussion and snaky electric guitar to capture the danger and fear inherent in the Deep South at the time, while the title song and "Jesus Is on the Main Line" draw on gospel and the traditional framework of church hymns to promise positive solutions. Staples, who adlibs on several cuts, connecting the injustice of yesterday to the continuing marginalization of blacks in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, remains a remarkable performer, employing a throaty sensuality that rises from a deep well of tremulous emotion. If her album is musically uneven at times, her artistry and strength continue to shine as undimmed beacons. --Alanna Nash More from Mavis and the Staple Singers 
Have a Little Faith | 
A Piece of the Action | 
Only for the Lonely | 
The Best of the Staple Singers | 
Great Day | 
The Staple Singers: Greatest Hits |
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