The Staple Singers
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The Staple Singers/Linda Lewis: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 12 February 1974
IF ANYONE ever asked for a definition of soul, the best advice you could give them would be to go to a concert by the ...
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Staple Singers, Mahalia Jackson et al: Randalls Island, New York NY
Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 8 September 1962
GOSPEL FESTIVAL GETS UNDER WAY 3-Day Event Set for Randalls Island Begins a Little Late ...
Traffic, Staple Singers, Crome Syrcus: Fillmore East, New York NYC
Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, 5 October 1968
Traffic Travel on Bumpy And Separate Musical Road ...
The Staple Singers: The Staple Swingers (Stax 2034)
Review by Gary Kenton, Fusion, 14 May 1971
IT'S ALL A bad idea except for the music. It's The Staple Singers — you know them — they couldn't make lousy music if they ...
Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 21 January 1972
IF I HAD to select the most satisfying thing to me personally of 1972 (within the realms of our music!), I would be more than ...
The Staple Singers: A Staple Diet
Interview by Phil Symes, Disc, 6 May 1972
IT ALL seems to be happening at once for Stax Records, the soul record company in Memphis, Tennessee. At present they hold American chart positions ...
The Staple Singers: Soft Sounds That Burn Deep
Profile by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 17 June 1972
JAMAICAN SINGERS have yet to follow up their undoubted success in Britain with a similar impact in the States but neverthelless reggae is making a ...
Comment by Bob Merlis, Words & Music, July 1972
WE'VE BEEN experiencing a remarkable phenomenon in recent months; the re-emergence of rhythm and blues as an important force in American popular music. Since it ...
Wattstax 72: Seven Hours of Soul
Live Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 8 September 1972
THE whole idea of WATTSTAX '72 was splendid. It enabled more than 100,000 people to attend a seven hour concert at the Los Angeles Coliseum ...
Stephen Stills, The Impressions, The Staple Singers, Tom Rush albums
Review by Loraine Alterman, The New York Times, 10 September 1972
Stephen Stills: Manassas (Atlantic); The Impressions: Times Have Changed (Curtom); The Staple Singers: Be Altitude: Respect Yourself (Stax); Tom Rush: Merrimack County (Columbia) ...
The Staple Singers: Pop Staples Looks Back
Retrospective and Interview by Bob Merlis, Words & Music, November 1972
THE STAPLE Singers will occupy a unique spot in American musical history, when that work is finally written. Their combination of those antithetical forms of ...
Wattstax (dir. Mel Stuart, Stax)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 10 February 1973
ISAAC HAYES, ROD STEWART and assorted FACES were at the preview of a new soul film. So was MM's RICHARD WILLIAMS... ...
The Staple Singers: Be What You Are
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 31 August 1973
AN IN-DEPTH REVIEW OF THEIR NEW ALBUM BE WHAT YOU ARE ...
MM Staple Singers special: Top of the Pops!
Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 2 February 1974
THE STAPLE SINGERS, who gave one charging show in London on Friday, are one of America's most justly famed gospel groups. They have come a ...
The Staple Singers: From Gospel to Protest
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 2 February 1974
IT'S A LONG, long way in space and time, from Drew, Mississippi to the 23rd Floor of the London Hilton. Fourteen years of singing and ...
The Staple Singers, Linda Lewis: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Tony Cummings, Black Music, March 1974
IT WAS great, but then we knew it would be. Linda Lewis won the cool crowd first, soft and gentle, then hard and funky, a ...
Retrospective and Interview by Tony Cummings, Black Music, March 1974
IT ISN'T hard to imagine. A concert hall staging an "Authentic Blues Festival". Paul Oliver would make the introduction for the adoring crowd of earnest ...
The Staple Singers: Let's Do It Again
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 6 December 1975
IF MAYFIELD'S lyrics are anything to go by, this film must be whole lots of scenes of funky loving in which they do it again ...
California Soul Hits The Big Apple
Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 6 April 1976
A special report by David Nathan on the on-stage and behind-the-scenes activities at Warner Brothers' special "California Soul" series of concerts during end of February ...
The Staple Singers: doin' it again with Mister Mayfield
Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 13 April 1976
ONE OF the most welcome sights of recent months has been the re-appearance in the pop and R&B charts of that much-loved and extra-soulful family ...
Curtis Mayfield: The Creative Mastermind
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, December 1976
TO TRY and describe Curtis Mayfield's enormous contribution to the music world would take far more adjectives than we have at our disposal. ...
The Staple Singers: Muscle Shoals Revisited...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 30 January 1979
IT CAN'T be coincidence that the minute the Staples return to Muscle Shoals, they come away with their best selling album since the last time ...
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 ...
It's All Over Now: A Farewell to Pops
Obituary by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 22 December 2000
Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples, patriarch of gospel-soul family group the Staple Singers, died on Tuesday, December 19. Possessor of a light, understated harmony voice and distinctive ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, March 2001
Four-disc overview for the label that brought you sweet soul music ...
I'll Take You There: The Everlasting Legacy of the Staple Singers
Retrospective by Andria Lisle, MOJO, April 2001
THE DRIVE FROM Memphis to Drew, Mississippi, is a treacherous one even today. Highway 61 will take you as far south as Clarksdale, before you ...
Retrospective and Interview by James Maycock, The Guardian, 20 July 2002
When Los Angeles erupted in the bloodiest racial uprising of the 1960s, the black citizens of Watts sent a message to the world, demanding that ...
Retrospective by Richie Unterberger, MOJO, July 2004
THE BIGGEST soul concert ever was about to end in a riot. ...
The Staple Singers: A Family Affair 1955 - 1984
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, December 2004
The greatest gospel group of all time? Lordy, yes! ...
Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, May 2008
David Burke talks to the indefatigable Mavis Staples ...
The Staple Singers: Be Altitude – Respect Yourself
Review by Lloyd Bradley, bbc.co.uk, 2010
One of the Stax label's greatest triumphs. ...
The Staple Singers: Working for the Lord
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, Vintage Rock, March 2017
THE STAPLE SINGERS were Americana before the term was even coined. They may have emerged from the gospel tradition, but the Chicago family – father ...
see also Pops Staples
see also Mavis Staples
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