🎼 🎶 🎸 🎙️ ❣️ The Staple Singers - Respect Yourself (Live WattStax 1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTXSVCpvrCE #music #StapleSingers #Mavis

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHEN STILLS + SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdHd5NkwZ2k

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The Best Of The Vee-Jay Years by the Staple Singers released on Vee Jay in 2007.

The Best of the Vee-Jay Years Review by Richie Unterberger

..."Uncloudy Day" and "This May Be the Last Time" (speculated as a possible source for the Rolling Stones' "The Last Time"), open and close the 17-track CD, respectively. Between those cuts are both Pops Staples originals and covers of traditional tunes like "Swing Down Chariot" and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." It's been said before, but it can be said here again: these are among the most accessible gospel recordings for rock-oriented listeners, owing to Pops Staples' distinctive tremolo-heavy electric guitar, the frequent use of light rhythmic drums, and the obvious connections to the soul music the Staples would make in their later incarnation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko2WRgEkDME&list=PL0MuQ1Cw_2Cg7rXAYJTYweWbZyHpx9ebo&index=1

#StapleSingers #VeeJay #Gospel #Soul #Music #PopsStaples #MavisStaples

Freedom Highway is a 1965 album by The Staple Singers. The title song was written for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights and reflects not only on the actions of the activists but what suffering they had endured to get there, even referencing the murder of Emmett Till at Tallahatchie River. The lyrics begin “March up freedom's highway / March, each and every day.” and continue “Made up my mind / And I won't turn around." Mavis Staples reprised the song in 2008 on Live: Hope at the Hideout, which was released on November 4, 2008, the same day that Barack Obama won the presidential election.

Staples, joined by Jeff Tweedy, performed "Freedom Highway" on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert at Chicago's Auditorium Theater on August 22, 2024, on the occasion of the closing night of the Democratic National Convention. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZaCrcBaQI4&list=RDXZaCrcBaQI4&start_radio=1

#staplesingers #civilrightstruggle #emmetttill #selmatomontgomery #freedommarch #marvisstaples #gospel #soul #music

Swing Low Sweet Chariot by The Staple Singers, released on Vee Jay Records in 1963.

Classic early Staple Singers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyLVjgic3oE&list=RDvyLVjgic3oE&start_radio=1

#staplesingers #gospel #soul #americanrootsmusic #veejay

🎼 🎶 🎸 🎙️ ❣️ Pops Staples - "Somebody Was Watching" (Full Album Stream)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Vdoghm8Sw&list=RDU2Vdoghm8Sw&start_radio=1 #music #PopsStaples #StapleSingers

The 25th Day of December Review by Steve Leggett

...Recorded in 1962 at Universal Studios in Chicago, the album features the classic Staple Singers lineup of Pops, Mavis, Yvonne, and Pervis Staples on vocals, with Pops doubling on his trademark reverb-drenched guitar alongside Maceo Woods on organ and Al Duncan on drums. The arrangements are simple and natural, leaving plenty of room for the vocals, and versions here of "The Last Month of the Year," "Joy to the World," and Thomas Dorsey's "The Savior Is Born" are nothing short of an easy, natural perfection. Pops' spooky guitar work gives extra atmosphere to the lightly funky "No Room at the Inn" and the gorgeous rendition of "Silent Night" that ends the album.,,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVb7JLYUa4g&list=PLgWmP-F0RTPPkIifBK5l9lC-wjHyLBgzX&index=1

#staplesingers #soul #gospel #popsstaples #marvisstaples #1952inmusic

Hammer And Nails by the Staple Singer released on Riverside in 1962

The Staples on Riverside produced by Orrin Keepnews. Sublime!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmCKR_P84hU&list=PLMaQcnC7s0Lp5-Pjm4qRgJ3gHhc3Imnqd&index=1

#staplesingers #gospel #riversiderecords #orrinkeepnews #1962inmusic

Swing Low Review by AllMusic

...SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT, 1961's SWING LOW is a vintage early Staple Singers set. It hails from the days when Roebuck "Pops" Staples and his daughters were rising stars in the world of black gospel and not the R&B-pop hit-makers they would become in the '70s. The album is a roughly equal mix of soulful, sanctified originals and traditional gospel classics like "Born In Bethlehem" and, naturally, "Swing Low Sweet Chariot." SWING LOW is also an important album for rock fans of a historical bent, since the last track, Pops's "This May Be The Last Time," is the song that directly inspired the Rolling Stones' single "The Last Time" a couple of years later. The album's startlingly direct sound, featuring little other than Pops' cutting, echo-drenched guitar and the sisters' pure, thrilling voices, makes it a classic of the Staple Singers' early sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j75DgZ13vrU&list=PLKv4aUcP0VUdCUYlnnmHOKTbjaQiTaE8U&index=10

#StapleSingers #gospel #rollingstones #thelasttime

This week I found out that the Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There" was an imagining of a world where the goal of civil rights and equality was truly realized, a true 'promised land'.

It gives the song an entirely new dimension.

https://youtu.be/IhHBr7nMMio

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