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We Get By by Mavis Staples
We Get By is an album by Mavis Staples, released in 2019. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 10 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Change”, on 8 lists and voted number one once.
We Get By, Mavis Staples' fourteenth studio album, arrived on Anti- on May 24, 2019, with Ben Harper producing, and the civil rights activist who came up in her family's band, the Staple Singers, still sings with a preacher's conviction. Her voice is weathered and warm, a rasp that can comfort and scold in the same breath, and the arrangements stay lean enough to give it room to move.
The cover speaks before a note plays: Gordon Parks' photograph "Outside Looking In", from his 1956 photo essay The Restraints: Open and Hidden. "Change" is the song that carried the album onto the countdowns. AllMusic picked it as a favorite blues album, and it won the Libera Award for Best Blues Record in 2020, one more honor for a singer who hadn't slowed down after Livin' on a High Note and If All I Was Was Black.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from We Get By on radio countdowns
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.