Mavis Staples has been performing for more than twenty years. A real vine Wilco Frontman Jeff Tweedy cooperation with the second album length.
Zoran Orlic/With the permission of the artist
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Mavis Staples has been performing for more than twenty years. A real vine Wilco Frontman Jeff Tweedy cooperation with the second album length.
Zoran Orlic/With the permission of the artist
From the churches of small countries to the Rock and Roll Honor List, Mavis Staples’s career lasted for more than 60 years.
The Bible legend did not show interest in retirement. New album, A real vineSecond cooperation with Jeff Tweedy from Wilco.
“This is a completely different CD,” says Staples NPR to Neal Conan. “Don’t go back to my beginning. As far as I was worried, he brought me a full circle. I definitely went to the country from the gospel and I returned here where I started.”
Staples began to sing with the family group The Staple Singer when he was 13 years old. He reminded him that his latest album was singing with his family, and he tried to sing at least one song written by his father Roebuck “Pops” Staples, who died in 2000. A real vine It includes “I love things about me”, a song in which his father’s leadership.
Staples says that singing his role is a challenge: “Pops was a singer’s singer.
He says that his father only teaches him to sing in his heart and let him flow. He would say, “Just be blue.”
Staples is still singing with her sister Yvonne. “When Pops passed, Stap Staples says,” Yvonne tried to sing me to continue and sing and look at me. “
Staples says he’s on the stage about three times, but something is missing.
“I had no family on stage with me, or he says. “I got off that stage and said, ‘Listen Yvonne, you should sing. I have to hear at least one staple sound on that scene.’ “
Yvonne still sings for her sister with two other singers.
Cooperation with Jeff Tweedy
Producer Jeff wrote three songs for Tweedy album: “Every Step”, “Jesus Weed” and the title piece “One True Vine”. In the songs written by Tweedy, he says that they have been conflicting with love and delivery several times.
“He was lucky to be in the engineering room and I couldn’t reach him to shake him, Stap Staples says. “But I continued and I made the way and I say I am grateful to you. I learned something new.”
Then Staples says he hopes to make a country album and to praise Bob Dylan: “I’m always trying to find new things to do,” he says. “I don’t know which direction I’m going. My next CD can be a country, you can be a Dylan, Mick Jagger. I don’t know. I love a challenge.”
