Mavis Staples, the album “Sad and Beautiful World” comes out

The 86 -year -old next November 7th Mavis Staples will release the album “Sad and Beautiful World”. The disc is produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahanchee, Nathaniel Rateliff) and revisits seven decades of the American songbook as well as proposing new original music.

Artists who respond to the name of, to name a few, attended the album, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Jeff Tweedy, Derek Trucks, Katie Crutchfield, Mj Lenderman, Justin Vernon. From today it is available “Beautiful Strangers”song written by the 37 -year -old American songwriter Kevin Morby who commented: “It is not easy to describe in words what it means to have one of the greatest and most important voices and cultural figures both of the 21st and the 21st century that sings a song of mine. But hearing Mavis sing” Beautiful Strangers “is undoubtedly the greatest and highest honor of my career. Much more than any recognition or acclamation: having one of my greatest heroines that I play something that I wrote is the most gratifying thing. The flattering that could happen to me as an author and as a person.

To capture the resonance and wealth of Mavis’ voice, Cook tried to build every song around that voice. He started from skeletal and scarne recordings, only battery and piano, focusing on his vocal interpretations. Then he expanded the song starting from there, trying not to obscure or never undermine the structure that she had established. He imagined a record in the wake of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” from the NITTY GRITTY Dirt Banda group of artists who meet to celebrate the community, in this case a community that revolves around Mavis. On “Sad and Beautiful World” Mavis Staples He said: “I just have to transmit the compassion I feel. I want to share the song as I feel it.”