You Are Not Alone (Mavis Staples album)
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You Are Not Alone is the 12th studio album
Studio album
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 by American gospel
Gospel music
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 and soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

 singer Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist who recorded with The Staple Singers, her family's band.-Biography:...

, released September 14, 2010 on ANTI- Records
ANTI-
ANTI- is an American record label founded in 1999 as a sister label of Epitaph Records.While Epitaph's focus has shifted over the last decade from mostly punk rock, nowadays ANTI- has a more diverse roster, ranging from country , hip hop , reggae , Soul , folk , rap-rock , indie rock...

. It won the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album
Grammy Award for Best Americana Album
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 at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards.

Reception

At Metacritic
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, which assigns a normalized
Standard score
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 rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average
Weighted mean
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 score of 81, based on 16 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".

Track listing

  1. "Don't Knock" (2:30)
  2. "You Are Not Alone" (3:57)
  3. "Downward Road" (3:08)
  4. "In Christ There Is No East Or West" (3:36)
  5. "Creep Along Moses" (2:57)
  6. "Losing You" (2:52)
  7. "I Belong To The Band" (3:31)
  8. "Last Train" (4:29)
  9. "Only The Lord Knows" (3:44)
  10. "Wrote A Song For Everyone" (3:47)
  11. "We're Gonna Make It" (3:27)
  12. "Wonderful Savior" (2:05)
  13. "Too Close/On My Way To Heaven" (5:10)

External links

  • http://www.anti.com/catalog/view/160/You_Are_Not_Alone at ANTI-
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    website
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