Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If we had the ability to assess who is the most beloved figure in music — not in overall numbers, but sheer adoration, per capita ...

Mavis Staples is known as many things: soul hitmaker, civil rights trailblazer, 21st-century torchbearer of American gospel music, roots music luminary, world-class entertainer, and singular lead ...

Mavis Staples is a legendary singer who will be one of many taking the stage during Let’s Go Crazy: The GRAMMY Salute to Prince on April 21. The concert, which was filmed back in January, will honor ...

Gospel/soul great Mavis Staples will release her 14th solo studio album, Sad and Beautiful World, on November 7. The 10-track collection features updated versions of tunes spanning “seven decades of ...

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has added 11 acts to its lineup for the music festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

Mavis Staples has announced her 14th solo album, Sad and Beautiful World, due out on November 7 via ANTI-. It was produced by Phil Cook, with Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Jeff Tweedy, Katie Crutchfield, ...

Mavis Staples remembers. In her new children’s book, Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples, she reaches back to when her father determined the type of music that was permissible to play ...

In 2014, the life and career of Mavis Staples was celebrated in a massive hometown tribute concert in Chicago called “I'll Take You There: Celebrating 75 Years of Mavis Staples.” The lineup featured ...

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. Pop music has reached a cross-generational ...

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The folk tradition is defined by the socially conscious nature of the music. In the 60s, pop music drove the culture and music with a message provoked a conversation in an effort to beget change. Punk ...