Mavis Live Set Named to 'All Time Best' List

Mavis Staples Live: Hope at the Hideout, the 2008 record that is the first-ever solo live recording of the singer's 50-plus year career, was named to Amazon.com's list of the Top 100 Live Albums of All Time. The record checks in at no. 45, just ahead of Muddy Waters: Live at Newport.

The Amazon editors write: "Chicago is Mavis Staples' hometown so she is in exceptionally fine spirits on this 2008 live set, her first solo concert recording, at the Windy City's Hideout venue. Backed by a stripped down yet phenomenal three piece band of veterans featuring guitarist Rick Holmstrom, drummer Stephen Hodges and bassist Jeff Turmes along with a trio of backing vocalists, Staples comes to 'bring joy, happiness, inspiration and some positive vibrations.' Mission accomplished."

Check a really cool 2008 album review from Time Out here.