Blog: Doklands

If you've seen David Byrne's film True Stories , you may remember the character of the voodoo priest. It wasn't a large role, but it was one with a song attached: Papa Legba . It was given an amazingly eerie and haunted performance by Roebuck "Pops" Staples, a man who played with Robert Johnson and Son House, and the patriarch of the first family of gospel, The Staple Singers. It wasn't the first time that Staples had tacked Talking Heads songs. Here's the whole family with two absolutely brilliant [...]

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