Mavis Staples is just a kid, plopped cross-legged on the living room floor. Her father, Roebuck "Pops" Staples, is strumming his old six-string, teaching his youngest daughter and her siblings ...

In 1965, only weeks after the bloody Selma-to-Montgomery freedom march, Pops Staples wrote the landmark protest song “Freedom Highway,” which his family debuted only weeks later before a ...

Interview: Mavis Staples Is Still Going Strong at 75. ... Roebuck “Pops” Staples, through to release this year. Staples continues to tour and perform, and just released a new EP, ...

Tribune music critic Greg Kot‘s new book, “I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers and the March Up Freedom’s Highway” (Scribner) is out Tuesday. It traces the rise of ...

Before his death in 2000, Roebuck “Pops” Staples gave the world nearly five decades’ worth of gospel and soul, both on his own and as the leader of the Staples Singers, the family singing ...

Before gospel great Pops Staples died 15 years ago, he gave his daughter Mavis Staples several unfinished songs, which she dutifully worked to complete. The resulting collection, Don’t Lose This ...

Roebuck "Pops" Staples, who led his family vocal group, the Staple Singers, from gospel music into the forefront of socially conscious rhythm & blues and to the top of the pop music charts, died ...

This traditional was, Mavis said, Pops’s favorite song when he was a boy; he was adamant that it be included on the record. It’s not the only track that reaches back into Staples family history.

Pops Staples died in 2000 and Cleotha Staples, the oldest of the three sisters, died in 2013. Yvonne Staples performs during the 2014 Newport Folk Festival at Fort Adams State Park on July 27 ...

Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples perform onstage during the Mavis Staples’ 85th: All-Star Birthday Celebration at YouTube Theater on April 18, 2024 in Inglewood, California.

Mavis Staples [May 2019 update: Her twelfth solo album, We Get By, is a collection of new songs written and produced by Ben Harper, which deftly spans gospel, blues, soul, and funk.