Loved watching the last Later in this series on iPlayer tonight. With Arcade Fire, Robert Plant and the Band of Joy and Mavis Staples on, I was in musical heaven. Especially loved Mavis tearing up at the clip of Pops playing 'Gotta Serve Somebody' and ripping into 'I'll Take You There'.
What an incredible musical journey - taking in Stairway To Heaven and Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down - Robert Plant has been on! His career has been reinvented - as with Johnny Cash and more latterly Tom Jones - by plumbing the Gospel roots of rock and roll and doing so in the company of those who know them best both musically and spiritually, such as T. Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller.
Arcade Fire build a wonderful wall of sound with the angst and adrenaline of adolescence. Like them, I hope that something pure can last!
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Mavis Staples - I'll Take You There.
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