Written and released in 1972 when it dominated radio airplay, it is a song we could use today, promising a better life, a better world.
Oh, mmm, I know a place
Ain’t nobody cryin’
Ain’t nobody worried
Built on a foundation of a gospel chorus, Mavis Staples gives us the lead vocals calling forth the response by the rest of the family. It is an old tale that we can endure our suffering on our path to heaven or Eden or whatever you want to call paradise. It is an anthem fo the civil rights movement as we journey to a better world.
Al Bell wrote the song in the wake of his brother’s murder. Lost, he gradually found glimmers of hope and put them into the song and Mavis Staples makes vibrant and real.
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