A new collaborative album from Mavis Staples and the late Levon Helms will be released in May. “Carry Me Home” will drop May 20th through ANTI-Records, featuring performances recorded in June 2011 at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, New York. It is one of Helm’s final recordings before his 2012 death.
“It never crossed my mind that it might be the last time we’d see each other,” Mavis shares. “He was so full of life and so happy that week. He was the same old Levon I’d always known, just a beautiful spirit inside and out.”
The album features 12 songs, including covers of The Rolling Stones’ “You To To Move,” Bob Dylan’s “You Got To Serve Somebody,” The Band's “The Weight,” Helm’s “When I Go Away” and more. Check out the Stones cover to the right and the track list below:
- “This Is My Country:
- “Trouble in My Mind”
- “Farther Along”
- “Hand Writing on the Wall”
- “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”
- “Move Along Train”
- “This May Be the Last Time”
- “When I Go Away”
- “Wide River to Cross”
- “You Got to Move”
- “You Got to Serve Somebody”
- “The Weight”
Source: Consequence of Sound