Mavis Staples: Children, It's A Brand New Day
Jim Farber, Spin, April 1989
THE LATEST Prince protégé is not some 20-year-old babe done up in lingerie and stilettos. It's righteous, 48-year-old pop/gospel legend Mavis Staples: a woman holy enough to give Prince's handshake between the sacred and the profane a squeeze it won't soon forget.
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