The mighty Mavis
Mavis Staples + Toronto live music listings
When Mavis Staples launched her still-ongoing comeback period with 2007’s civil-rights-themed We’ll Never Turn Back, she recorded a song with the chorus “99 and a half just won’t do.”
Now that the moral arc is bending back the other way, Staples has released one of her strongest albums, one that’s aptly titled for these times.
