Mavis Staples is one of those miraculous figures — someone who’s been making earth-shakingly important music for an extremely long time and who remains active and curious, with a whole lot left to say. As part of the Staple Singers, her family act, Staples was a legend when she was basically still a kid. She is now 86 years old, and she released her cover of Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed” earlier this year. That song will appear on Staples new album Sad And Beautiful World, which is full of covers like that one and which features an absolutely killer lineup of collaborators.
