Livin' on a High Note

Prodotto da M Ward ed in uscita il 19 febbraio 2016, Livin’ on a High Note è l’album di Mavis Staples che segue all’EP Your Good Fortune. Il disco presenta canzoni scritte appositamente per lei da Nick Cave, Justin Vernon, tUnE-yArds, Neko Case, Aloe Blacc e altri ancora.

Riguardo al disco, la Staples ha fatto una dichiarazione, segnala Pitchfork, che vi riportiamo di seguito in lingua originale: «I’ve been singing my freedom songs and I wanted to stretch out and sing some songs that were new. I told the writers I was looking for some joyful songs. I want to leave something to lift people up; I’m so busy making people cry, not from sadness, but I’m always telling a part of history that brought us down and I’m trying to bring us back up. These songwriters gave me a challenge. They gave me that feeling of, ‘Hey, I can hang! I can still do this!’ There’s a variety, and it makes me feel refreshed and brand new. Just like Benjamin Booker wrote on the opening track, ‘I got friends and I got love around me, I got people, the people who love me.’ I’m living on a high note, I’m above the clouds. I’m just so grateful. I must be the happiest old girl in the world. Yes, indeed».

Ad anticiparlo i brani Action (tUnE-yArDs), Jesus Lay Down Beside Me (Nick Cave) e High Note (Valerie June).