Mavis Staples Performs "I'll Take You There" at In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul accompanied by the White House band. - Jan 13, 2014 … [Read more...] about Wednesday Evening Thread: Flashback – Mavis takes The White House THERE!
Mavis Staples
Wednesday Afternoon Thread: Family Week
The Staple Singers! Roebuck "Pops" Staples (1914–2000), the patriarch of the family, formed the group with his children Cleotha (1934–2013), Pervis (b. 1935), and Mavis (b. 1939). I'll Take You There … [Read more...] about Wednesday Afternoon Thread: Family Week
Monday Afternoon Thread: Nia
Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Letta Mbulu - Many Rains Ago (from Roots soundtrack) … [Read more...] about Monday Afternoon Thread: Nia
Sunday Open Thread: Happy Easter!
Aretha Franklin & Mavis Staples - Oh Happy Day … [Read more...] about Sunday Open Thread: Happy Easter!
Friday Open Thread
The Chicago Soul Series concludes today with the incomparable Curtis Mayfield. (From Curtis Mayfield Official Site) Curtis Mayfield was born July 3, 1942 in the Cabrini-Green housing projects, Chicago’s North Side, part of a single parent, seven member family in a small apartment. Mayfield first sang before the public in his grandmother’s Traveling Soul Spiritualists’ … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread