Mavis Staples has announced a new album. Produced by Brad Cook, Sad and Beautiful World combines original material with covers of songs by Tom Waits , Gillian Welch and David Rawlings , Frank Ocean , Curtis Mayfield , and Leonard Cohen , among others. In June, Staples shared her rendition of Ocean’s “ Godspeed ,” and, today, she’s shared her take on Kevin Morby ’s “ Beautiful Strangers .” Listen to the new song below.

“It isn’t easy to put into words what it feels like having one of the best, most important vocalists and cultural figures of both the 20th and 21st century sing one of my songs,” Morby shared in a press statement. “But hearing Mavis sing ‘Beautiful Strangers’ is hands down the greatest moment and highest honor of my career. Far beyond any kind of accol

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