Music Review: Mavis Staples emerges with peaceful, even-keeled album, ‘Sad and Beautiful World’

Mavis Staples's new album hums with a hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old’s raspy contralto. It is titled “Sad and Beautiful World.” ...
NPR

Willie Nelson and Ken Pomeroy make beautiful music for tumultuous times

On Cruel Joke, Pomeroy, age 22, sings with an acoustic twang about farms and cowboys. The 92-year-old Nelson's Oh What a Beautiful World is an album of covers of songs by Rodney Crowell. This is FRESH ...
Rolling Stone

Jesse Malin Says ‘Be Here Now, Baby’ on New Album ‘Sad and Beautiful World’

“It’s great to be back in Brooklyn,” Jesse Malin deadpanned onstage at the Nashville outpost of Brooklyn Bowl, the bowling-alley-meets-concert-venue he was playing earlier this week as part of the ...
The Register-Herald

Music Review: Mavis Staples emerges with peaceful, even-keeled album, 'Sad and Beautiful World'

Mavis Staples ' latest album hums with hope that could only be delivered by the 86-year-old American treasure’s raspy contralto. “Sad and Beautiful World” sees the gospel and R&B icon, who briefly ...