Mavis Staples & Levon Helm CD: Carry Me Home (CD)

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(Anti) 12 tracks, digisleeve Iconic singer Mavis Staples is an alchemist of American music. One... more

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Mavis Staples & Levon Helm: Carry Me Home (CD)

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Iconic singer Mavis Staples is an alchemist of American music. One of her most beloved musical moments in her 70-plus year career was her riveting performance in Martin Scorsese's film The Last Waltz, performing with The Band The Weight - a moment that launched a lifelong friendship between her and Levon Helm.

Staples came to Woodstock, NY to perform as part of Helm's famous "Midnight Ramble" series, and the concert that followed - now available for the first time on the stirring new ANTI Records release Carry Me Home - would mark a personal high point for both artists.
Carry Me Home was recorded live in the summer of 2011 and features two of the most iconic voices of the past century coming together in love and joy, tracing their shared roots and celebrating the enduring power of faith and music. The setlist that night was righteous, mixing old gospel and soul with timeless folk and blues, and the performances were loose and playful, fueled by an ecstatic atmosphere that was equal parts family reunion and tent revival.
Reading between the lines, however, there is an even more poignant story at play here. Neither Staples nor Helm knew this would be their last performance together - the collection marks one of Helm's last recordings before his death - and listening back now, a little more than a decade later, tracks like This May Be The Last Time and Farther Along take on new, bittersweet meaning. The result is an album that is both a time capsule and a memorial, a happy homecoming and a tender farewell, a once-in-a-lifetime concert - and a friendship - preserved for eternity. Staples and the evening's soulful backup singers do most of the vocal work here, but perhaps the album's conclusion, The Weight, which features Helm as lead vocalist for the first time, is the concert's most emotional moment.

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Interpret: Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
Album titlle: Carry Me Home (CD)
Label ANTI
Genre Blues
Artikelart CD
EAN: 8714092785920
weight in Kg 0.04

Staples, Mavis - Carry Me Home (CD) CD 1
01	This Is My Country	Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
02	Trouble In My Mind	Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
03	Farther Along	Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
04	Hand Writing On The Wall	Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
05	I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free	Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
06	Move Along Train	Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
07	This May Be The Last Time	Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
08	When I Go Away	Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
09	Wide River To Cross	Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
10	You Gotta Move	Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
11	You Got To Serve Somebody	Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
12	The Weight	Mavis Staples & Levon Helm