CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Mavis Staples' Second Act

With a new album—the Jeff Tweedy-produced 'You Are Not Alone'—and a new label, the gospel and soul veteran is having the time of her life. 'I am just so happy,' she says. It's early July, and Mavis Staples is sitting in the Silver Lake-based offices of Epitaph Records, a truth that is surprising to her. The 71-year-old gospel and soul legend from Chicago isn't the first artist of heritage status to be embraced by Epitaph's adventurous Anti- division, but she's no doubt outnumbered by ...

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