Staples, Mavis - Sad and Beautiful World (CD) BGB47.1

Staples, Mavis - Sad and Beautiful World (CD) BGB47.1COMPACT DISC (CD) Grim days call for fierce love. And Mavis Staples, one of the most enduring figures in American music, is laying it down. Sad And Beautiful World is the latest solo album from a national treasure and multigenerational talent. Produced by Brad Cook, Sad And Beautiful World spans seven decades of the American songbook a range nearly as vast as Mavis' career and includes reinventions of timeless songs by Tom Waits, Sparklehorse, Gillian

15 Two Way Diamond II

Includes a download code with the full album plus original album demos available as a digital exclusive

Captured at Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw

and an emotionally jarring narrative

7 Times Like These

Childhood memories were coloured by the aromas of health food stores and the sound of New Age labels like Windham Hill Records

“Ride Into the Sun - Take 2”

A massively under appreciated band that has been doing it their way for 20+ years

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the band's glorious dub version of their second album 'Con Todo El Mundo'

The Wailers and many others

These compact