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Vor 2 Tagen · The Staple Singers worked long and hard to earn their rightful spot on the AM radio dial. They got their start on the Gospel Circuit in the late 40s, and began reaching a wider audience by the early ‘60s. A true family affair, the act featured Mavis Staples up front, along with her sister Cleotha and brother, Pervis on backing vocals. Their ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Mavis Staples As the lead vocalist of The Staple Singers, a family band formed with her siblings, Mavis helped shape the sound of gospel, soul, and R&B music in the 1950s and 60s.
The great Mavis Staples turned 80 this week. To celebrate, she shared a series of photos on Facebook—including this pic with her old friend Bob upvotes · comments. r/bobdylan. r/bobdylan. Welcome to the subreddit of the poet laureate ...
Vor 10 Stunden · May 31, 2024. Every Friday around 11 a.m. Central, it’s time for Classic Americana on Radio Heartland. We pull a special track from the archives or from deep in the shelves to spotlight a particular artist or song. Perhaps best known as a singing drummer, Levon Helm was born to a cotton-farming family in Arkansas in 1940.
Vor einem Tag · May 30, 2024 at 6:44 PM · 2 min read. Artist and activist Tom Morello will receive the 2024 Woody Guthrie Prize on Sept. 25 at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The annual award recognizes a ...
Vor 2 Tagen · “You Are Not Alone” by Mavis Staples I thought about this song constantly as I wrote Someplace Like Home . It is so rich in its relationship to this story—for one, my mother would have been listening to The Staple Sisters back in the 1960s and 70s, just like I later would as a teenager myself, when I fell in love with that musical era.
Vor einem Tag · "The one that probably will always be the most proud of is getting to work with Mavis Staples and contributing something to her catalog, to her body of work that seems to have resonated not just with her audience or a new audience, but with her that she likes to sing, that means something to her. I think that would've satisfied me without it winning a GRAMMY [in 2011]."
