Legendary gospel-soul singer Mavis Staples made her name with her family band, but she’s made some of the best music of her career over the last decade with a surprising series of collaborators.

Mavis Staples’ walls don’t have to talk. The photos and mementos that line her tidy apartment on Chicago’s South Shore are one long tribute to the varied career of one of the world’s mightiest gospel ...

Mavis Staples showed up early for church this weekend -- about 12 hours early. The youngest of the Staples Singers, now a spry septuagenarian, whose husky voice has only grown in authority in the 38 ...

Mavis Staples has been performing for more than six decades. One True Vine is her second album-length collaboration with Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy. From small country churches to the stages of the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. A legendary performer who will turn 85 next month on July 10, Mavis Staples ...

A lot of artists in the soul/gospel/R&B genre can trace their inspiration back to Mavis Staples, even if it’s a six-degrees-of-separation-type scenario. She’s a legend in the industry and as a civil ...

With a little help from one of the legendary voices in Southern soul, a North Mississippi Allstar pays tribute to his late father, Memphis music... Songs We Love: Luther Dickinson (feat. Mavis Staples ...

We feature gospel and R&B singer Mavis Staples, from the second installment of our show all about Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan admired the civil rights songs of the Staples Singers and would hear them on tour ...

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Mavis Staples was insistent, fired up, growling those words on stage at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, CA last Thursday, her blue duster shaking around her tensed, compact body. What she wasn’t ...