It was the latter half of 1998, and Pops Staples, the patriarch of the Staple Singers, was nearly eighty-four years old. He was unwell, but his voice was still strong. So his daughters decided that he ...

More than 15 years ago, Roebuck "Pops" Staples started recording his final album with his daughters. The two friends discuss working together to... Raising Pops: Mavis Staples And Jeff Tweedy Complete ...

“Don’t Lose This” (Anti) presents a double dose of history. Not only is it the late Roebuck “Pops” Staples’ final album, it also marks the final recording by the family group that Pops founded in ...

CHICAGO — One of the greatest soul singers of the last half century is named Bubbles. It says so in Mavis Staples’ living room, where a certificate hangs honoring “Bubbles” for co-producing the Grammy ...

What a monumental legacy Roebuck “Pops” Staples left behind! From the mid-1950s on, his family group, the Staple Singers, was a premier gospel act. In the ’70s, they scored a number of uplifting R&B ...

Even the taste of talent Australian songwriter Courtney Barnett gave us on her first two EPs established her as one of the best lyricists in rock. Here new album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and ...

As iconic gospel divas go, Mavis Staples is one humble lady. In a recent 25-minute interview with Seven Days, she repeatedly returned to one theme in particular: how grateful she is for, well, pretty ...

More than 15 years ago, Roebuck "Pops" Staples started recording his final album with his daughters, Mavis, Cleotha and Yvonne of the gospel-R&B family act The Staple Singers. Pops was ailing, but his ...