Mavis Staples has introduced a brand new album. Produced by Brad Cook dinner, Sad and Beautiful World combines authentic materials with covers of songs by Tom Waits, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Frank Ocean, Curtis Mayfield, and Leonard Cohen, amongst others. In June, Staples shared her rendition of Ocean’s “Godspeed,” and, immediately, she’s shared her tackle Kevin Morby’s “Beautiful Strangers.” Take heed to the brand new music under.
“It isn’t simple to place into phrases what it looks like having among the finest, most vital vocalists and cultural figures of each the twentieth and twenty first century sing one in every of my songs,” Morby shared in a press assertion. “However listening to Mavis sing ‘Lovely Strangers’ is fingers down the best second and highest honor of my profession. Far past any form of accolade or acclaim—having one in every of my greatest heroes sing one thing I wrote is probably the most validating and flattering factor that might ever occur to me as a songwriter and particular person. Thanks, Mavis.”
Morby added: “Mavis additionally wields that extraordinarily uncommon energy to take a music anyone else wrote and make it solely her personal. As the one who penned ‘Lovely Strangers,’ I really feel I’ve each proper to say; her model is best.”
Unhappy and Lovely World is out November 7 through through Anti-. Bonnie Raitt, Jeff Tweedy, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman, and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon all make visitor appearances on Staples’ solo follow-up to 2019’s We Get By.
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Unhappy and Lovely World:
01 Chicago
02 Lovely Strangers
03 Unhappy and Lovely World
04 Human Thoughts
05 Exhausting Instances
06 Godspeed
07 We Bought to Have Peace
08 Anthem
09 Glad Thoughts
10 Everyone Wants Love
