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Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | Step Into The Light | | 4:46 | | 2 | | Pops Recipe | | 5:26 | | 3 | | Have A Little Faith | | 4:35 | | 4 | | God Is Not Sleeping | | 5:49 | | 5 | | A Dying Man's Plea | | 3:49 | | 6 | | Ain't No Better Than You | | 4:13 | | 7 | | I Wanna Thank You | | 4:49 |
See more tracks| 8 | | I Still Believe In You | | 3:31 | | 9 | | At The End Of The Day | | 3:56 | | 10 | | There's A Devil On The Loose | | 3:34 | | 11 | | In Times Like These | | 3:50 | | 12 | | Will The Circle Be Unbroken | | 3:21 |
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Review
Mavis Staples, the grande dame of the legendary Staple Singers, has spent much of her solo career striving for pop crossover, but here she revisits the earthy, guitar-centered soul-gospel sound that made her group such a consciousness-raising force in the 1960s. Talk about an overdue return: She's inspired to lean back and roar with all her heart, and though the songs of Faith aren't uniformly top-shelf, her performances definitely are. Whether singing an abiding classic ("Will the Circle Be Unbroken") or a more extroverted rumble ("Ain't No Better… Read More Than You"), Staples shows sheer vocal authority, and she can still deliver a spine-chilling "amen.
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