FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 7, 2025
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MAVIS STAPLES RECEIVES TWO GRAMMY NOMINATIONS

“BEAUTIFUL STRANGERS” NOMINATED FOR  
BEST AMERICAN ROOTS PERFORMANCE 
 
“GODSPEED” NOMINATED FOR BEST AMERICANA PERFORMANCE 
 
HEAR BOTH ON NEW ALBUM ‘SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD’  
OUT TODAY

Photo Credit: Elizabeth De La Piedra

WATCH PERFORMANCE OF “HUMAN MIND” ON
THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT

Music icon and national treasure Mavis Staples was nominated for two GRAMMY’s this morning for performances on her new album ‘Sad And Beautiful World’, out today. Her renditions of the Kevin Morby song “Beautiful Strangers” (Best American Roots Performance) and Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed” (Best Americana Performance) were both nominated. 
 
"For a world stricken by injustice, uncertainty and loneliness, Staples has again delivered a soundtrack that meets the moment,” Associated Press has declared. Rolling Stone added: “The album further cements Staples alongside Bettye Lavette and Willie Nelson in the pantheon of great American song interpreters still doing great work later in life." 
 
On Monday of this week, Staples gave a moving performance of “Human Mind” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a track co-written for Mavis by Hozier and Allison Russell. Watch it HERE.  
 
Produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee) 'Sad And Beautiful World' shows that love is a choice and a force all its own. The album is a litany of prayer, of Mavis breathing life into these songs. “I just have to deliver the compassion I feel,” she says. “I want to share the song the way I feel it.”   
 
 
TOUR DATES  
Nov 8 – Portsmouth, NH @ Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club  
Nov 21 – San Antonio, TX @ Carver Community Cultural Center  
Dec 10 – Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom 
w/ Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats  
Dec 11 – Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom 
w/ Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats  
January 10 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre 
(w/ support from Nathaniel Rateliff solo)  
Jan 15 – Tyler, TX @ UT Tyler Cowan Center  
Jan 16 – Dallas, TX @ Longhorn Ballroom  
Jan 18 – Fort Walton Beach, FL @ 30A Songwriters Festival  
January 24 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium (w/ support from MJ Lenderman)  
February 28 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre (w/ support from Allison Russell)  
March 12 – Medford, OR @ Holly Theatre  
March 14 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall

Listen to ‘Sad And Beautiful World’  
1. Chicago  
2. Beautiful Strangers  
3. Sad And Beautiful World  
4. Human Mind  
5. Hard Times  
6. Godspeed  
7. We Got To Have Peace  
8. Anthem  
9. Satisfied Mind  
10. Everybody Needs Love  
  
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Kelly Kettering | ANTI- Records Publicity | kelly@epitaph.com