Mavis Staples
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Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 25 June 2013
"SOME HOLY GHOST KEEPS ME HANGING ON," Mavis Staples intones over and over a loosely strummed acoustic guitar, world-weary yet resolved on the opening track ...
Mavis Staples: Union Chapel, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 11 June 2014
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME," Mavis Staples sings vampily. "How old am I? Sixteen years old." In fact, she turned 75 today, but 16 feels about ...
Albums from Frederick Knight, William Bell, Margie Joseph, Mavis Staples and Johnny Taylor
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 26 June 1976
The Sorry Stax story ...
Prince: Batman (Warner Bros.); Mavis Staples: Time Waits for No One (Paisley Park)
Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, September 1989
Batty Prince, Torn Between Good and Evil ...
Mavis Staples: A Voice Like No Other...
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 28 September 1993
Times were tough for Mavis Staples in the years when she and her family didn't have a deal... and then along came Prince and signed ...
Mavis Staples: My Prince Has Come
Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 5 August 1989
After years in the doldrums MAVIS STAPLES, one of the female voices is back. A phone call from Prince resulted in a new album Time ...
The music doc Mavis! lets the powerful performances do the talking
Film/DVD/TV Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 16 March 2015
LIKE THE MARYLAND Film Festival, the South by Southwest Film Festival follows each screening by a discussion with the movie's creative team. After SXSW presented ...
Mavis Staples Is for the Children
Report and Interview by Amy Linden, The Village Voice, 12 January 2011
MAVIS STAPLES digs her some younger men, but she'd rather lead them to the studio than the bedroom. "I think it really makes for a ...
Mavis Staples: Time Waits For No One (Paisley Park)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 10 June 1989
NINETEEN EIGHTY nine has been a year for bumping into old friends, what with the spate of reissues, relaunched careers, and general rehabilitation. Back in ...
Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Oxford American, July 1998
THE STAPLE Singers didn't get started until ten years after the family patriarch, Roebuck "Pops" Staples, moved the clan from Winona, Mississippi, to Chicago in ...
Live Review by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 28 September 1993
THE MAN KNOWS no bounds. Having already performed a half hour show for the BBC that morning, Prince was intent on ending his European tour ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, March 2001
Four-disc overview for the label that brought you sweet soul music ...
The Staple Singers: God's Greatest Hitmakers
Retrospective and Interview by Bill Carpenter, Goldmine, 30 August 1996
THERE'S NO question about it. Forget the Winans or the Hawkins Family, the Staple Singers are the most widely known, best-selling gospel group of all ...
see also Rick Holmstrom
see also Staple Singers, The
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