Reviews
Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007"., 3 stars out of 5 -- "An album that aims to rekindle the spirit of the '60s civil rights movement....Persuasive...", "WE'LL NEVER TURN BACK features Staples applying her throaty, emotive contralto to a program that includes spirituals...", 4 Stars Out of 5 -- "An Assemblage of Liberation Cries, As Passionate and Relevant Today As Then...", 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Her singing has never lost the crazy potency that it had when she was younger, and it's still as beautiful and haunting as ever on this new CD.", "These are songs of hope and protest....The power, strength, and heartfelt sincerity in the delivery drives the disc home.", "In purely musical effect, the power, passion and conviction that permeate this project cannot be denied. Nor resisted."
