Mavis Staples är naturligtvis en del av den legendariska gospel- och soulfamiljen Staples. Hon har haft en framgångsrik solokarriär och här samarbetar hon med gitarristen/producenten Ry Cooder. Plastetui i pappkassett.

"...We'll Never Turn Back, focuses on another kind of hope: the hope that the men and women who engaged in the civil rights struggles of the early '60s brought to a hostile America and changed its laws -- and some of its attitudes, but not nearly enough -- forever. Staples has enlisted the help of the original vocalists of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Community, who were called the SNCC Freedom Singers, Ladysmith Black Mambazo (no strangers to the struggle for basic human rights) in a couple of places, and Ry Cooder and his roots band to accompany them. Cooder produced the set, but his gift is the ability to retain in their entirety the voices of the performers when he works with them. Mavis may not have the shouting power she once had, but the conviction and expression in her voice have not wavered an inch. She's still got plenty in her pipes, and We'll Never Turn Back is the proof. Cooder's compadres are son Joachim on percussion, drummer Jim Keltner, and bassist Mike Elizando... We'll Never Turn Back is the kind of album we need at the moment, one that doesn't flinch from the tradition but doesn't present it as a museum piece either. Mavis Staples has done it again." (Thom Jurek, allmusic.com)

12 spår; speltid 57:49.

1. Down in Mississippi
2. Eyes on the prize
3. We shall not be moved
4. In the Mississippi river
5. On my way
6. This little light of mine
7. 99 and 1/2
8. My own eyes
9. Turn me around
10. We´ll never turn back
11. I´ll be rested
12. Jesus is on the main line