Artist: mavis staples

Thanks in part to her ubiquitous 1991 hit single Something To Talk About , Bonnie Raitt became one of the biggest selling female artists of the late '80s/early '90s , but it took the blues singer-songwriter nearly 20 years and 10 albums to finally get the attention and big break that she deserved. On April 10, the Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer will release her 16th studio album, Slipstream , her first in seven years and the debut album for her own label, Redwing Records. The 12-track record, which Raitt self-produced with [...]

The third annual Hangout Music Festival runs May 18-20th on Alabama's Gulf Shores. As previously reported, Jack White will top this year's lineup and he'll joined by Dave Matthews Band and an a soon-to-be-announced third headliner. Other heavyweights include Wilco, String Cheese Incident, The Flaming Lips, who will perform Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon , Chris Cornell, Skrillex, Dispatch, and Steve Winwood. Also playing are Randy Newman, STS9, Coheed and Cambria, Flogging Molly, M. Ward, Dr. Dog, Alabama Shakes, Dawes, Cage the Elephant, Gogol Bordello, Young the Giant, Mavis Staples, Big Freedia, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Gary Clark [...]

The lineup for this year's Hangout Music Fest is starting to be released via the official Facebook page. So far on the lineup announcement (along with the Jack White news coming late last week) we can see that String Cheese Incident has been booked for two sets one of the nights (which leaked earlier tonight [...]

Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. • WBEZ's Jim DeRogatis has the scoop on the Cook County Board of Commissioner's recent move to grab control over the amusement tax waiver provided to Lollapalooza . The county estimates that the annual summer festival's tax exemption adds up to approximately $350,000 a year to the county alone. • 'Soul Train' creator Don Cornelius tragically passed away last week [...]

Madge played her halftime show at the Indianapolis home that Peyton Manning built for this year's Super Bowl. The hype machine that has been working around the clock (see collabos with M.I.A. and Minaj) in support of the new release from the Material Girl to be titled, "MDNA," reached it's pinnacle last night with a medley of treasured hits from the iconic superstar. But it looks like M.I.A. single-handedly highjacked the halftime show last night with her gratuitous crotch shot and lewd gesture to America by flipping "us" the bird. Aside from that slight hiccup and [...]

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Chicago soul legend Mavis Staples brought her signature brand of gospel and folk songs to the Royal Conservatory of Music's incredibly ornate Koerner Hall Sunday night. Having scored her first hit with the Staple Singers' "Uncloudy Day" all the way back in 1956, one might be led to think that her enthusiasm for performance or ability to command a crowd might have diminished over the years. Luckily, this was anything but the case as Staples and her stunning backing band awed a reverent, sold-out crowd for the entirety of their 100-minute set. The a [...]

There's something special about live music. But when you're brought into a musician's preparation process prior to his or her show, it's another level of extraordinary. It's like you were personally invited and led by the hand to a some intimate thing you weren't supposed to be a part of. Here's Wilco , Nick Lowe , and gospel singer Mavis Staples rehearsing "The Weight" (originally by The Band) in the make-up room back in December at the Civic Opera House in Chicago.

Filed under: News , Exclusive , Spinner Interview , Q + A Chris Strong Mavis Staples began her singing career in 1950 as a God-fearing gospel belter alongside her sisters in a family band. But as America began confronting its racial demons in the following decade, the Staple Singers joined the uprising. Roebuck "Pops" Staples, a close friend of Martin Luther King, Jr and the [...]

The overriding WOW(!) factor that jumped out most when the 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival lineup was released was the caliber of both the newer and established female artists in the lineup. This year the Jazz Fest organizers hit the nail on the head with their attention to the amazing array of new [...]

Well this is rather special. Whilst at The Chicago Opera House in December last year, Wilco , Nick Lowe & Mavis Staples had a little rehearsal backstage in the dressing room and someone ( Zoran Orlic) kindly filmed it resulting in a hair-raising performance that's quite simply mind blowing. They perform The Band's track "The Weight" complete with bass, electric and acoustic guitar, keys. Plus there's more soul in that room than many of us can hope to ever possess. Check it out and I challenge you to not watch this multiple times.

Wilco, Nick Lowe and Mavis Staples - "The Weight" // Having flashbacks of The Last Waltz . - MW

I know I rip on Wilco a lot, but this is pretty damn good. Mavis Staples leads Nick Lowe and Wilco in their rendition of The Band's classic "The Weight" backstage at the Civic Opera House in Chicago in December 2011. Also watch the killer original from the best concert film of all time, 1973's The Last Waltz . A young Mavis Staples wails out the second verse. I love the comment on the youtube page that says, "Rick Danko [...]

Take a load off.

After a great rundown of Wilco's Amazing Shrinking Concert from The Steam Engine a few weeks ago, I noticed an encore performance of The Weigh featuring Mavis Staples and Nick Lowe. After listening to this take upwards of 10 times, a video of the gang rehearsing the performance popped up online. The result is a full on joy, as it kept a smile on my face throughout. It's funny - it seems like every time Jeff Tweedy jokingly recites a rap song on stage , or has his children make a juvenile one off video [...]

"The Weight" by The Band is one of those songs that's been around so long that it's taken for granted. There is the recorded version on Music From Big Pink , and everyone and his mom has recorded it. But everyone in the music-sphere has been aflutter about it all over again today, thanks to a rehearsal video shot by Illinois photographer/videographer Zoran Orlic . Rehearsing prior to a Wilco and Nick Lowe show last month at the Civic Opera House in Chicago, the video, that includes Wilco, Lowe, and [...]

O Wilco já começou o ano de 2012 mostrando suas excelentes parcerias, sem idade mínima ou máxima. No mesmo dia, os fãs da banda norte-americana ganharam dois novos vídeos para conferir e compartilhar. O primeiro é um clipe para a canção Whole Love , com um nome ilustre assinando sua direção. Não, não é nenhum cineasta premiado, é Spencer Tweedy , filho do vocalista Jeff e colega de banda de seu próprio pai no "projeto" The Racoonists , que dirige aqui um vídeo caseiro com a participação de seu [...]

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Back on 12/12, I had the pleasure of catching Wilco at the Civic Opera House. Towards the end of this amazing show, Nick Lowe and Mavis Staples joined the boys on stage. They closed with The Weight. Here is their rehearsal. I love Tweedy's comment at the end, "That will sound good." Tweet

filmed backstage and the civic opera house in chicago in december... awesomeness

Wilco's first show from the "The Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago", The Civic Opera House recorded 12.12.11 is now streaming on WilcoWorld They performed most of their new songs off their latest album, The Whole Love Wilco - The Weight (The Band) ft Mavis Staples, Nick Lowe