VOL № E72 — December 2018
Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples
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Mavis Staples is the sound of an artist figuring out who she was and what she had to say, even if she was already 20 years into her career. While Mavis didn’t write any of the songs here, she lived them; these are 11 songs charting different points on the arc of a failed relationship, from the first brushes of love, to the way it feels like a romantic partner has your love forever, to the breakup you never see coming, to wishing that things would go back to normal and they’d still be there when you get home to an empty house.
LP 1 / Side A
| 1 Until I Met You 2.48 |
| 2 Sweet Things You Do 2.38 |
| 3 The Choking Kind 3.24 |
| 4 You're Driving Me (To The Arms Of A Stranger) 3.23 |
| 5 A House Is Not A Home 4.27 |
LP 1 / Side B
| 1 Security 2.47 |
| 2 Son Of A Preacher Man 2.17 |
| 3 Pick Up The Pieces 3.06 |
| 4 Chained 2.50 |
| 5 Good To Me 3.15 |
| 6 You Send Me 2.56 |
