#Staple Singers

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On their way back to Chicago after a series of shows in Mississippi in November 1964, the Staples Singers pulled into a Memphis gas station to fill up. Pops Staples was in the bathroom when the young attendant finished filling the tank. After Mavis Staples paid him, she asked the attendant to bring her a receipt. The attendant responded that if she wanted a receipt, she had to come inside to get it, adding an epithet that starts with an “n.” When Pops returned to the car, Mavis told him what had happened. Pops went into the station to get the receipt and told the attendant that he owed his daughter an apology. Instead of apologizing, the attendant insulted Pops as well. Pops was prematurely gray, which may have contributed to the attendant’s misjudgment of him, and of course the attendant could not have known that Pops had been a boxer as a young man. The end result was that Pops gave the attendant exactly what he had earned—a good thumping.

After the Staples drove away the attendant phoned the Memphis police, claiming he had been beaten and robbed by a carload of black people. He described the car, which the Memphis police soon found. They pulled the Staples family over, arrested them and took them to the Memphis police station. Mavis later said she has never been afraid in her life that she was that day as they were being taken into the station. In the car the police had found a box full of cash (the group’s earnings from their shows) which seemed to confirm the story that they were thieves. But as they were being arraigned, a janitor in the station recognized them. “These are the Staples Singers,” he told the cops. “They’re a famous gospel group.” Realizing what had happened, the cops got the group’s autographs, apologized, and let them go. Whether the attendant was charged with making a false report is unknown, but we can hope that he at least was given the shaming he deserved.

In 1968 the Staples Singers signed with Stax Records and crossed over into R&B and pop. In 1971 their single “I’ll Take You There” went to #1. Throughout the group’s existence they sold millions of records. Mavis Staples, at age 81, is still performing.

Roebuck “Pops” Staples died in Chicago at age 85 on December 19, 2000.

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Spring 2001 Mixtape.

All City: “Move On You” (RMX)

Roots Of Orchis: “Building Peaks”

Einsturzende Neubauten: “Was Ist Ist”

Nobodys, The: “Fuck You Too”

Pharcyde: “Oh, Shit!”

Isaac Hayes: “Buns O’ Plenty”

Sonic Youth & Yamatsuka Eye: No

AxCx: “Morbid Flowers”

Devola: “Pigeon Fight”

Chicks On Speed: “Mind Your Own Business”

Starflyer 59: “Wherever You Go”

Fidel Villeneuve: “I Wish I Was Dead”

April March: “Chick Habit”

Mr. Oizo: “Flat Beat”

Boards Of Canada: “Petina”

Ahmad Jamal: “I Say A Simple Little Prayer”

Sea And Cake, The: “Afternoon Speaker”

Company Flow: “Linda Tripp”

Heat, The: “Play The Drums”

Alter Ego: “Nude Restaurant” (Exploding Plastic Strings RMX)

Staple Singers, The: “Let’s Do It Again”

DJ Scud: “Mash The Place Up”

Smiths, The: “Panic”

Tristeza: Dream Signals In Full Circles

Chris Connelly: “Destestimony III”

Jean-Jacques Perrey: “E.V.A.”

Isaac Hayes: “A Few More Kisses To Go”

April March & The Makers: “Sometimes, Sometimes”

Einsturnzende Neubauten: “Fiat Lux / Maifestspiele / Hirnlego”

Camera Obscura: “Theory Of Sex As An Art Form”

Download: Effector

Unsane: “Vandal-X���

Elastica: “Mad Dog”

Autechre: “Flutter”

Gil-Scott Heron: “We Almost Lost Detroit”

Yoshinura Sunahara: “The New World Break”

Dorothy Ashby: “The Windmills On Your Mind”

Cutthroats 9: “Dirty”

Marvin Gaye: “After The Dance”

Chicks On Speed: “Stop Records Advert”

Donny Hathaway: “Singing This Song To You”

David Axelrod: “The Warning”

Company Flow: “Funcrusher Plus”

Wu-Tang Clan: “Cutting Heads”

Isaac Hayes: “Hung Up On My Baby”

Vision Of Disorder: “Pretty Hate”

Einsturzende Neubauten: “Styropor”

Geoff Farina: “The Rights”

Devola: “Well-Oiled Machine”

Peaches: “Fuck The Pain Away”

Johnny Rebel: “We Is Non-Violent…”

Death Cab For Cutie: “Company Calls Epilogue” (ALT)

Slits, The: “Typical Girls”

Ida: “Shrug”

Pharoah Sanders: “The Creator Has A Master Plan”

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I recently overhauled my music collection, going through it to make sure every file had the basic metadata (title, artist, genre, album). I used a program which let me edit the properties of multiple files at once, which led to one or two errors, like a Taylor Swift song being temporarily misattributed to the Staple Singers. 

But I must say all I want from the world now is a Staple Singers cover of We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together in the style of Heavy Makes Ya Happy. 

[ID: A screengrab of my mp3 app, showing three files; Mr. Brightside by The Killers on top, Hopelessly Addicted by The Corrs on bottom, and between them, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by...the Staple Singers, who definitely did not sing that song. It says “music” under each one but that’s just file type, not genre, don’t at me.]

[thelongstrangedrivehome2]

playlist for the eighteenth of april twenty twenty-four

Staple Singers — Slippery People

The Clash — Tommy Gun

Gorillaz — O Green World

The Rolling Stones — 2000 Man

Frank Black — I Gotta Move

Tegan & Sara — Alligator

Lou Reed — Vicious

Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Cold Light

David Bowie — Starman

Wire — From The Nursery

Roxy Music — Oh Yeah

Bob Dylan — Mary Ann

Frankie Goes To Hollywood — Born to Run

Paul Simon — Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War

The Rocky Horror Show Original Roxy Cast — Sweet Transvestite

The Veils — Total Depravity

Miley Cyrus — You

David Bowie — Fantastic Voyage

Bob Dylan — Meet Me in the Morning

Willie Nelson - Me and Paul

Leonard Cohen - Anthem

The Chills -I Love My Leather Jacket

Grateful Dead - Mexicali Blues

Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

Pixies - What Goes Boom

The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes

Tori Amos - Ring My Bell

Hey guys, serious question... How would you feel if I quit tumblr, and started posting these exclusively on Medium. I am already posting them on Medium as well

The Long, Strange Drive Home — East FM 88.1 107.1

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[mostlythemarsh]

Staple Singers

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Dellie Hoskie & Their Natural Selves - I'll Take You There (Noble Records)

Staples Singers version.

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SONG OF THE WEEK “For What It’s Worth” https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/for-what-its-worth-live-9-02...I’ve been a fan of Buffalo Springfield since I was a kid, seeing them do this song on TV (“Bluebird” was one of the first 45s I owned). So many of their songs are my favorites, for the song craft, the chemisty between band members, visionary production values, and so on. However, I was never motivated to cover any of their music till after I heard The Staple Singers do a funky-gospel remake of “For What It’s Worth,” and from there I put my own slide on it (my live recording reached #1 on iTunes). “FWIW” is classified as a quintessential protest song, addressing social turbulence in the 1960s (particularly the Vietnam War), echoing Biblical prophecy with Orwellian insight. However, that may be overstated. Stephen Stills recounts writing it in November 1966 as a reaction to unrest between law enforcement and young club-goers on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Wildly enough, it became Buffalo Springfield’s first hit single.

#stephenstills #buffalospringfield #johnnyjblair #StapleSingers #sunsetstrip #protestsong #slideguitar #12stringguitar #gospel #funk #soul #EriePA #singeratlarge #november #1966

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Trippin' on Your Love by The Staple Singers

[americanahighways]

REVIEW: The Staple Singers “Africa 80”

REVIEW: The Staple Singers “Africa 80” @omnivorerecordings @americanahighways #johnapice @thestaplesingers @mavisstaples #americanahighways #americanamusic #africa80

The Staple Singers – Africa 80 I wasn’t an entirely fan of soul music back in the ’60s. I did have my share of hits by The Four Tops, The Temptations, Otis Redding & Aretha Franklin. So, a deeper dive wasn’t evident until 1978 while enjoying The Band’s Last Waltz concert. There were many big-name headliners with eye-catching performances. But it was The Staple Singers that surprisingly…

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[thelongstrangedrivehome2]

playlist for the eleventh of april twenty twenty-four

Bruce Springsteen - Rosalita (Come Out And Play)

The Rolling Stones - Miss You

Dolly Parton - Wrecking Ball

Syd Barrett - Terrapin

David Bowie - The Jean Genie

T. Rex - Jeepster

Björk - Hyper-Ballad

John Lennon - Instant Karma

Shihad - Deb's Night Out

The Velvet Underground - New Age

Elton John - Honky Cat

David Bowie - Breaking Glass

The Rolling Stones - Faraway Eyes

The Smile - Open the Floodgates

Lou Reed & David Bowie - Hop Frog

Pink Floyd - The Show Must Go On

X-Ray Spex - Warrior In Woolworths

Nick Lowe - 36 Inches High

Staple Singers - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

The Beths - I'm Not Getting Excited

Bob Dylan - The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)

Boy George - My Sweet Lord

Teenage Fanclub - Personality Crisis

Meat Puppets - Unexplained

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RIP ROBBIE ROBERTSON

One of The Band's great performances, with the Staple Singers, from The Last Waltz.