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 ...

Arcade Fire members Win Butler and Régine Chassagne covered Talking Heads‘ art-funk classic “Slippery People” with Mavis Staples at a ... star version of the Band’s “The Weight.” ...

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.” ...

Before three-time Grammy winner Mavis Staples takes the Heritage Theatre ... who rose to fame as a member of her family’s band The Staple Singers, is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award ...

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 ...

The two key members of Black Pumas, backed by the house band, did their ... to actually name-check “Mavis” in a song, although his was not a literal tribute to Staples. He performed that ...

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 ...