Time Waits for No One (Mavis Staples album)

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Time Waits for No One
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 24, 1989
Recorded1988–1989
Studio
Length39:11
Label Paisley Park
Producer Prince
Al Bell, Homer Banks, Lester Snell on "20th Century Express" & "The Old Songs"
Mavis Staples chronology
Oh What a Feeling
(1979)
Time Waits for No One
(1989)
The Voice
(1993)
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Time Waits for No One is the fourth solo studio album by American soul singer Mavis Staples. The album was her first on Prince's Paisley Park Records label and was released on May 24, 1989. [1] The album includes six Prince-penned songs and two songs written by Homer Banks and Lester Snell. Shortly after this album, she continued her collaboration with Prince. In September 1989, she recorded the song "Melody Cool" which would appear in the 1990 movie Graffiti Bridge , as well as on its soundtrack, and on her 1993 follow-up album The Voice .

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Prince; except where indicated

  1. "Interesting" – 4:26
  2. "20th Century Express" (Homer Banks, Lester Snell) – 3:52
  3. "Come Home" – 5:21
  4. "Jaguar" – 5:31
  5. "Train" – 4:25
  6. "The Old Songs" (Homer Banks, Lester Snell) – 4:51
  7. "I Guess I'm Crazy" – 4:12
  8. "Time Waits for No One" (Prince, Mavis Staples) – 5:51

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