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June 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Mavis Staples: We Get By

Mavis Staples  We Get By  Anti/Epitaph   She is 80 this year. She is remarkable. She is the voice of civil rights. She is one of the voices of the 20th Century and her output across the last decade and a half in particular shows a restless ambition; Mavis Staples doesn’t want to be remembered as being the voice of just the […]
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December 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Mavis Staples: If All I Was Was Black

Mavis Staples If All I Was Was Black Anti/Epitaph What a decade it’s been for Mavis Staples – riding on a high note ever since 2007’s We’ll Never Turn Back with a constant victory-lap of touring and this now deep collaboration with Jeff Tweedy’s Wilco. It hasn’t all been amazing, I couldn’t get too excited […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, ANTI-, Blues, Epitaph, Folk, Gospel, If All I Was Was Black, Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples, Politics, Pops, Protest, Racism, Rick Holmstrom, Ry Cooder, Staples, The Staples Singers, Tweedy, Wilco ·

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June 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

case / lang / veirs: case / lang / veirs

case / lang / veirs case / lang / veirs ANTI/Epitaph It’s always really something when the final product delivers on the obvious hype around the project. Here Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs have collaborated – made, if you must, “a supergroup” (you get the feeling they’d hate that tag – deserved though […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, ANTI-, case / lang / veirs, Collaboration, Country, Epitaph, Glenn Kotche, John Zorn, k.d. lang, Laura Veirs, Neko Case, Rob Burger, Supergroup, Tin Hat Trio, Trio, Tucker Martine, Wilco ·

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April 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Mavis Staples: Livin’ On A High Note

Mavis Staples Livin’ On A High Note Anti/Epitaph Here’s the latest from Mavis Staples, and a producer-switch, following two charming-enough but sombre Jeff Tweedy-helmed full lengthers. Now we have M. Ward making sure things are sunny and hopeful – and the songwriting credits include Nick Cave, Neko Case and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon among others. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, ANTI-, Bon Iver, Documentary, Epitaph, Jeff Tweedy, Justin Vernon, Live: Hope at the Hideout, Livin' On A High Note, M. Ward, Mavis Staples, Mavis!, Neko Case, Nick Cave, Ry Cooder, We'll Never Turn Back, Your Good Fortune (ep) ·

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