Worth The Weight!

HE Band’s inspired merger with The Staple Singers on “The Weight” for is generally regarded as the finest ever iteration of that eternal classic. It was fitting, then, that Levon Helm and . “The Weight” is the album’s emotional climax, particularly as Helm once feared that throat cancer would mean he’d never sing it again. “The place just went wild when Levon sang,” Staples recalls. “It was a real fullcircle moment to be performing that song together again.” Helm’s daughter Amy – who is also Staples’ god-daughter – sung alongside them at The Barn that night. “My father worshiped Mavis Staples for the deep reach of her incomparable voice, for its capacity to lift anyone who heard her sing to the best place in themselves,” she says. “He was humbled and overjoyed to have her bless The Barn with her singular gift. [] was a vivid and powerful conversation.”