1. Booker T and The MG's: I Want You (She's So Heavy) [ Buy it ] In 1969, The Beatles and Booker T & The MG's had mutual fan clubs. John Lennon called the Stax band "Book a Table and the Maitre D's" and, in 1970, The MG's covered the entire Abbey Road album. 2. Bill Withers: Do It Good [ Buy it ] [...]
Delaney & Bonnie had a lot of friends. So there’s no surprise that an early D&B album cut entered the repertoire of both The Staple Singers and The Flying Burrito Brothers before the duo commercially released their own recording. “Get Ourselves Together” was never anyone’s single, but there was something about this song that transcends [...]
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 [...]
Fridays 'round these parts typically see gobs of remixes. Today didn't seem right posting a "Friday Remixes," partly due to the fact that this entire weekend most people will be celebrating Christmas with family, friends and loved ones. I plan on doing the bulk of my shopping today and my procrastinating has taken me as far out as possible. No matter how hard I try to fight it every year, I fall into the same trap. Saturday will be full of football from morning till nighttime. I'm in the championship game of my fantasy league, so I'll be [...]
@ Online // Facebook Starting out humbly by broadcasting from a Chicago car dealership in 1963 and for the next twenty-one years of Sunday mornings, Sid Ordower presented the Emmy award winning Jubilee Showcase , a powerful half-hour of the finest Gospel music America had to offer. Many artists now considered legendary performers from Gospel music's golden age got their start on Ordower's show or made their first televised appearance [...]
Last year we had two compilations of classic Christmas soul (plus one featuring newer stuff); here is a third volume. It kicks off with a spoken intro by The Jackson 5 . Jermaine is crying – and the manner in which that is established always makes my smile – and he needs yuletide comforting. Wonderful stuff. Towards the middle we get socially conscious. Stevie Wonder , still just 17 years old, hopes for no hunger and no tears, but for peace and equality of man. Then the Harlem Children’s Choir , who sound rather older [...]
Watch Joss Stone, Mavis Staples, and Paul Dempsey sing protest classics in a televised concert.
Shirley Brown lays down the law on this classic mid-seventies soul album, reissued now with previously unreleased gems.
We were excited to see the conversation our female punk icons post generated, finding relief in the fact that while Rolling Stone may have overlooked these women, our readers certainly haven't. Unfortunately, punk rock isn't the only genre in which women have been notoriously sidelined - often, a funk album's only female presence is its scantily clad cover model. When pressed, true funk aficionados can name a few women who brought the funk but, more often than not, Chaka Khan is the only artist who gets credit for her contribution. While we love our Chaka, there are plenty of other ladies who [...]
He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg. Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor. Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you. (It's a summer jam, of sorts.) [ mix cover image by Marcus Claesson ] July 2011 Mix [...]
The Staple Singers need no introduction - they are as classic as a '57 chevy and as enjoyable today as they ever were.
Things happen quickly. Good times are had. New friends are made. Fresh experiences teach us about ourselves and the world. There's always that one person who wants to drag you out of the present and into the past. Don't bother. It's not worth the effort. Just keep rolling. But remind yourself to take a moment [...]
The Staple Singers make their biggest hits and best album The Staple Singers had been a together for nearly two decades when they landed at Stax in 1968. They’d recorded old-school spirituals for Vee Jay and folk-influenced sides for Riverside before finding a new direction with the Memphis soul powerhouse; not only did the Staples adapt to the soul and funk energy of Stax, but they evolved their material from the pointed social topics of the folk era to less specific, but highly empowering “message music.” Their first two Stax albums, 1968’s [...]
Another gem from the Stax Remasters Series.
Star Slinger released "Mornin'" last year, and now there is a video directed by Alan Jensen to match the upbeat, bright feeling of the (Curtis Mayfield produced) Staple Singers sampled song. Star Slinger - Mornin' by Star Slinger
Easter is coming, so it seems righteous to post the first in a series of great Christian music that, I hope, will lift the spirits of the believer, and make those who don’t believe wish they would, if even for the duration of a song. This mix comprises gospel, soul, blues, funk and country, stretching from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. Some of the featured artists will be better known in other genres, some of them got their start in gospel music. Among them is Sly Stone , who as Sylvester Stewart was a child [...]
Download: The Staple Singers - Masters Of War (Bob Dylan Cover)
Tomorrow would have been Johnny Cash's 79th birthday, a historical marker that we usually celebrate by taking out our cowboy boots and pretending to know Carl Perkins. Cash's legacy is great and varied, but one of his enduring contributions to pop culture was his short-lived but thoroughly awesome stint in television, The Johnny Cash Show . The show lasted a little under two years, but in that time it hosted enough great musical guests to blow most actual festivals out of the water. But are you be surprised that the Man in Black had great [...]
One of the more interesting little factoids to emerge from the recent Tribute to Neil Young at Carnegie Hall, New York City, 2/10/11 was that Bettye LaVette covered "Heart of Gold" back in 1973.Well, here's another interesting factoid -- The Staple Singers covered Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" back in 1967.Here's a remarkable playback of the original 45RPM single.The reason we find
Since the beginning of Bob Dylan's imprint on popular culture his material has had the rare ability to transcend race, space and time. While you may have a number of these covers scattered throughout your collection, there is no denying Ace Records did a commendable job last year gathering up and framing twenty Dylan tracks [...]
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