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 ...
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, ...
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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 ...