Life Happens, it is an appropriate title for this album by the now 74-year-old Candi Staton. Both in her private life (married five times) and in her career, she often had to start over. When she returned to the spotlight in 2004 thanks to an acclaimed collector of her soul work, she had already had at least three careers: as 'queen of southern soul', as a disco diva and as a gospel singer. Since
… then she has started working with new energy, presenting herself as a woman who wants to share her life experience with the listener. This is also the case on Life Happens, which is all about the ups and downs in love. Soul and blues form the basis for long-lived songs with revealing titles such as I Ain't Easy To Love, Even The Bad Times Are Good, She's After Your Man and Never Had The Chance. Remarkable is the reunion in three songs with Rick Hall, the producer of the Fame label with whom Staton recorded her (still) best work in the seventies. (IV)more
