Tag: Mavis Staples

Album – Mavis Staples and Levon Helm – Carry Me Home

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Levon Helm and Mavis Staples were always a match made in heaven, from their first meeting at The Last Waltz in 1977, to their final performance in 2011, captured live on Carry Me Home. Despite that fact that she was born…

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Album | Mavis Staples – We Get By

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A group of black children looking through a chain link fence at a carnival in the distance is the cover of Mavis Staples’ new album We Get By. The image is from a photo essay published in 1956 by Gordon…

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