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For over fifty years, the music of The Staple Singers has played an electrifying part in American culture--and it all started with just one man. Known simply as Pops Staples, the family's musical man ...

After shifting from true gospel to their own “soul-folk” in the mid-’60s, covering Dylan and hanging with Martin Luther King, the Staple Singers hit a skid until signing with Al Bell’s Stax Records in ...

Last night, Mavis Staples performed at the Lagunitas Brewery in California, and she brought out Tom Waits for a rare live performance as a surprise to everyone in the audience. He joined her for a ...

Luther Ingram, the soul singer who seduced audiences with his hit "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" and wrote the Staple Singers hit "Respect Yourself," died Monday of a heart attack ...

Rare performances by Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Sam & Dave and Booker T & the MGs, Staple Singers, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd and more chart the rise of the Memphis Soul Sound during the ...

The Staple Singers did nothing less than modernize gospel music. They are the next evolutionary step after Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, all churchgoers that etched humanity into hymns and gave ...

Written in Their Soul collects 140 previously unreleased demos from Stax Records, the Memphis label whose 1960s and ’70s stars included Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes, Sam and Dave, ...