Due for release 31st July 2026 via Kent
CD [Released 27th March 2026]
Limited LP + 7" [Released 31st July 2026]
Soul Music legend Candi Staton returns to her down-home Alabama roots on her 32nd album, Back to My Roots. The twelve-track Americana set features an array of Staton-penned originals and some well-chosen covers.
"These songs represent my roots," Staton adds as she reflects on her many trials and triumphs. "Even the new songs on some level represent something I've experienced and that's what real soul music is about." Back to My Roots was produced by Staton with her second eldest son, Marcus Williams, a professional drummer who has toured with the likes of Peabo Bryson, Isaac Hayes, and Tyler Perry. They brought in Mark Nevers of Lambchop fame, who produced three of Staton’s prior Americana albums for Honest Jon’s and Thirty Tigers, to sweeten certain tracks. “Some of the first songs I ever heard were songs like `Peace in the Valley’ and `It’s Gonna Rain,’” says Staton. “The new songs or cover songs are tracks that remind me of that era when I was growing up as a child and evolving as a young woman. That’s why I named the album Back to My Roots because I’m going back to the roots that made me who I am.”
SIDE 1
1. I MISSED THE TARGET AGAIN (RADIO EDIT) 3.40
2. IT'S GONNA RAIN 4.06
3. HANG ON IN THERE 3.59
4. SHINE A LIGHT 4.26
5. THE LORD WILL MAKE A WAY 4.56
SIDE 2
1. THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE VALLEY 3.26
2. 1963 5.20
3. REACH DOWN AND TOUCH HEAVEN FOR ME 2.48
4. LOVE BREAKTHROUGH 3.46
5. IN GOD'S HANDS WE REST UNTROUBLED 4.58
(7" SINGLE 45RPM)
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SIDE ONE
1. MY GOD HAS A TELEPHONE 3.25
SIDE TWO
1. GOD'S GONNA USE ME ANYWAY 4.02