Another all-star celebrity cover of The Weight. Thanks to David Handelman for this, who adds, “Take a load off your fanny.”
Bravo to Mavis Staples for her spunk and enthusiasm after all these years. Is Nick Lowe praying, shoegazing or reading the lyrics off an iPad? If he’s only reading lyrics off a piece of paper, that’s so 20th century, which is cool in this case because this song started as a rock’n roll song before becoming one of the 20th century’s most popular folk songs.
And here’s Mavis Staples, 35 or so years ago, singing the same song in The Last Waltz with The Band:
