#staples singers

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The Staple Singers - Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Stax Records

Kelly Latimore painted an icon of Roebuck "Pops" Staples which he presented to Mavis Staples on her 80th birthday.

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2021 RSD release version of The Staples’ classic

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al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1341

first posted in facebook august 28, 2024

cordelia -- "if you're ready" (ca. 2020)

"if you're ready if you're ready now if you're ready, yeah come on go with me" … raymond jackson, homer banks & carl hampton

"here is some of the new artwork dee dee has been working on. If you want to use any of these for your project, i can get titles for you. i'm also going to take a picture of the painting she made that we used for a beer can and send it to you" … emily vides

"'if you're ready' is the name of a song from 1973 by mavis staples and her family, the staple singers. we have been leaning on their music to inspire us and help us navigate a path through this world. we'll be donating proceeds from this beer to black visions collective & families for justice as healing" … small change brewing company

"i think i voted for the right man said we’d overcome stay on freedom highway until the day is done march for freedom's highway march each and every day march for freedom's highway march each and every day made up my mind and i won't turn around made up my mind and i won't turn around keep on marchin’ up freedom’s highway" … pop staples

"i've made up my mind … and i think i chose the right artist … i won't turn around … so come on, come on along with us" … al janik

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The Last Waltz (1978) - The Weight Scene (4/7) | Movieclips

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Happy birthday Pops Staples

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He’ll take you there.

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Daddy...

Let'z Deux It Again, Again, Again, & Again !!!

▶️ 📎 & YT Audio @ Same ⏰️.

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Rudy Vallée. Now that was a lie, that was a downright lie. Rudy Vallée being popular. What kind of people could have dug him? You know, your grandmothers and mothers. But what kind of people were they? He was so sexless. If you want to find out about those times and you listen to his music you’re not going to find out anything about the times. His music was a pipe dream. All escapes. There are no more escapes. If you want to find out anything that’s happening now, you have to listen to the music. I don’t mean the words, although Eve Of Destruction will tell you something about it. The words are not really gonna tell it, not really. You gotta listen to The Staple Singers, Smokey and the Miracles, Martha and the Vandellas. That’s scary to a lot of people. It’s sex that’s involved. It’s not hidden. It’s real. You can overdo it. It’s not only sex, it’s a whole beautiful feeling.

Bob Dylan

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bob dylan handshake emoji david byrne autistic white men who get genuine thrill out of being absolutely bodied by mavis staples on their own songs

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The Staple Singers - Power of Love (1968)

Recorded as the Staples were moving to secular music, there's still a strong gospel sound backing Mavis' powerful and gritty vocals. Cool guitar by Pops, as well.

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Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz” April 26, 1978.

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Ape Madness struck the nation in the early 70s and now, this summer, it has returned! Somewhere in the Universe, there must be something better than man!

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Mavis Staples  *July 10, 1939

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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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MUSIC MONDAY: The “Say It To My Face/Mind Your Own D*mn Business” Playlist (LISTEN)

by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Threads: @stlmarlonwest IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) Happy Music Monday, you all! Once again it’s your friend and selector, Marlon West, with another collection for listening and, this time, voting pleasure. That is unless you are the kind of voter more inclined towards the guy that inspires a playlist featuring Kid Rock and Ted Nugent. Though if you…