If ever we need Mavis Staples, it’s now. The 86-year-old has been there, done that, and is still standing, or at least according to her new album’s cover, sitting, hands-crossed at the table. Maybe a little less steady in the voice and…
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…
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…