Mavis Staples was still in grade school when she started singing in front of congregations in South Side churches. Now at 79, Staples remains very much at home responding in the moment with a band ...

Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy have ... the keyboardist Pat Sansone was the only other member of Wilco to join Staples’ touring band on “You Are Not Alone,” providing occasional organ ...

Pervis Staples died May 6 at his home in Dalton, Illinois according to Adam Ayers, a spokesman for Staples' sister, Mavis Staples The ... The Dock of the Bay” and The Band’s “The Weight.” ...

Mavis Staples is a legendary singer who will be one ... Mavis began her music career by singing in her family band, The Staple Singers. The group consisted of Mavis, her father, and siblings.

Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples perform onstage during ... Pops Staples’ ‘World in Motion.’” The two key members of Black Pumas, backed by the house band, did their own career-making ...

There is nothing outwardly professorial in appearance or demeanor about Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples ... of 4,700. Staples, 83, sang for 50 minutes with her two-woman, three-man band, while ...

It's not Beyonce, but Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staples closed out a week of The Late Show's DNC coverage with a performance of the Staple Singers' civil rights-era anthem "Freedom Highway." The two ...

But now the other members of Mavis Staples’s family—her father ... Earlier this year, I went to see Staples and her band at the Barns, a small indoor venue on the grounds of Wolf Trap ...

Mavis Staples, “Live in London”: Mavis Staples was still in grade school when she started singing in front of congregations in South Side churches. Now at 79, Staples remains very much at home ...