OUT TODAY: Mavis Staples Live: Hope At The Hideout

Tuesday November 4, 2008

Mavis Staples' new album, Live: Hope At The Hideout, is in stores today. Make sure to go out and buy it!

• “She sat in at lunch counters and marched with King to protest segregation in America in the 1960s. Now Mavis’ marvelous new Live: Hope at the Hideout revisits that era with personal recollections and brilliantly evoked songs from (or recast for) the movement…if this concert doesn’t get your heart pumping, check your pulse.” –Philadelphia Daily News

• “Blistering…remarkable.” -Time Out Chicago

• “Her voice’s laryngitic burr is extraordinarily potent for a 69-year old, and there’s a frisson of hope discernible on the delivery of a song like “Eyes On The Prize,” a civil rights rallying-cry lent fresh pertinence by Barack Obama’s campaign for the US presidency.” ***** -The Independent UK

• “Simply magnificent.” -Detroit Free Press

• “Staples– even at 69– is a geyser of ferocity and depth…her energy is gobsmacking. Following a raucous rendition of “Freedom Highway”, which the three-piece band plays as a runaway bus on a rural road, culminating in much cymbal smashing and jubilant howls, Staples apologizes, “I get so all up into it. You know, when the spirit hits you, you’ve got to move!”” -Pitchfork

• “Haunting and relevant.” -Blackbook

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