From the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Gospel Hall of Fame, and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winners’ First African Tour Featuring hits “Let’s Do It Again,” Respect Yourself,” “Touch A Hand, Make A Friend,” and more April 1, 2024: Omnivore Recordings has announced a new live record from The Staple Singers, Africa 80, which …
August 22, 2023 – Today, two-time GRAMMY award-winning band Old Crow Medicine Show released “One Drop” featuring Mavis Staples ahead of their new album Jubilee, out this Friday, August 25 via ATO Records. “One Drop” is a gospel-inspired romp that closes the 12-track album with a message of unity: “It takes one kind word to …
Photo Credit: Greg McKean Today Mavis Staples and Levon Helm’s spirited rendition of Nina Simone’s “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free” has been released featuring previously unseen footage of the two of them performing the song together; watch and listen below. “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free”: https://youtu.be/fFjVZL_-SKY The pair’s …
I am just sending a song from the artist I regard as our best. In every way. Hope it can be sent further. – Ron Swanson View this post on Instagram Levon’s 80th webcast benefitting Levon Helm Studios and Newport Festivals …
Today soul legend Mavis Staples has released the hopeful new song “All In It Together”. Produced by Jeff Tweedy and featuring Tweedy on backing vocals and guitar, listen to it HERE. “All In It Together” is available on all streaming services and Bandcamp. All proceeds from the song will be donated to My Block, My Hood, My City – a Chicago organization …
“I’ve stretched out—I’m singing songs that rock stars have written for me,” explained Mavis Staples, “but they know me and the kind of songs I want to sing.” This includes “Love and Trust,” composed by Ben Harper, which is also the opening song on Live in London. L“I love that song, it’s a beauty,” she …
With the recent passing of her sister Yvonne and her dear friend Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples is one of our few remaining links to an extraordinary time when the gospel tradition and the fight for social justice were deeply and movingly entwined. “It’s kind of unbelievable to me that I’m still recording,” said the 79 …
WELCOME TO MY LIBRARY: It’s time to go back and finish this book on The Staple Singers. This group was such a big influence on what I did with The Staquelettes, which Tracy Ferrara is translating into horn arrangements. The fact that so many everyday people aren’t really that aware nor all that hip to …
Mavis Staples is one of the very true American voices left. She sang with the Staples Singers and had many hits with that group. Mavis early on became the featured singer there given her unique sound. Her voice was low and passionate and the only one of its kind. Mavis is a national treasure. I …
I just watched Mavis! on HBO – this documentary is so good, it even caused me to have warm feelings towards Jeff Tweedy! There’s great vintage clips and commentary from Chuck D & Dylan, plus a warm moment with Levon Helm not long before he passed. – Pat Thomas is the author of Listen, Whitey! …
How is it that Mavis Staples put a record out and I can’t find it on EPB? Mavis Staples, of the first family of American singers (the Cash-Carter clan is a close second, but cannot sing as well) released an excellent album of mostly Gospel tunes in 2010 called, “You Are not Alone.” It was …
Another all-star celebrity cover of The Weight. Thanks to David Handelman for this, who adds, “Take a load off your fanny.” Bravo to Mavis Staples for her spunk and enthusiasm after all these years. Is Nick Lowe praying, shoegazing or reading the lyrics off an iPad? If he’s only reading lyrics off a piece of …
B’shoot was exhausting, not to mention rather slight in the big names/next big things department. At this point I shouldn’t need to rely on Old Soul Artists (Mavis Staples, Dennis Coffey, Charles Bradley, hell, even Hall & Oates!) to provide my hardcore jollies at a big Seattle music festival, but I guess it’s come to …
This is a “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” moment for pop music, if that makes sense to anyone. The performances are dignified, reverential, lovely really, but it’s the deftly chosen response shots from celebrities, each of whom lit up their own artistic or cultural supermoment in the years since the songs were released which project …