Mavis Staples Announces New Album We Get By , Shares New Song “Change”: Listen

Braudie Blais-Billie
The record was written and produced by Ben Harper

Mavis Staples has announced a new album titled We Get By. The record, written and produced by Ben Harper, is out May 10 via Anti-. Listen to the lead single “Change” below.

“These songs are delivering such a strong message,” Staples said in a statement. “We truly need to make a change if we want this world to be better.”

We Get By’s album art features the photograph “Outside Looking In” by Gordon Parks from his 1956 photo essay The Restraints: Open and Hidden. Parks co-founded Essence magazine and was the first African American staff photographer and writer for Life magazine. In 2017, Mavis received the Gordon Parks Foundation Award.

Mavis Staples is performing at this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival. It takes place from July 19-21 at Chicago’s Union Park. Tickets are available now.

We Get By:

01 Change
02 Anytime
03 We Get By [ft. Ben Harper]
04 Brothers and Sisters
05 Heavy on My Mind
06 Sometime
07 Never Needed Anyone
08 Stronger
09 Chance on Me
10 Hard to Leave
11 One More Change

See the video.