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 ...
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 ...