#706 Mavis Staples
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4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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As a member of her family group The Staple Singers and as a solo artist, Mavis Staples has used her huge voice to power the Civil Rights Movement and inspire generations. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot revisit their intimate discussion of her life and career as the gospel and soul legend approaches 80 years old.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Shh. From W be EZ Chicago and PRX, this is Sound Opinions. I'm Jim De Regattis. |
| 0:30.0 | And I'm Greg Kot. Mavis Staples just released her latest solo album and shows no signs of slowing down as she |
| 0:36.5 | approaches her 80th birthday this summer. |
| 0:39.0 | Give me a one-way ticket somewhere I've never been. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm rock paper scissors and I'm going to win. |
| 0:50.0 | This week we hear from the living legend about her life and career. |
| 0:54.0 | That's coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:57.0 | This is sound opinions and I gotta tell you you, Mavis Staples is on a tear, Jim. |
| 1:06.0 | With her new release we get by, she's released seven solo studio albums since 2004. |
| 1:12.0 | Every one of them a gift. She'd basically stop making. solo studio album since 2004. |
| 1:12.8 | Every one of them a gift. |
| 1:13.9 | She'd basically stopped making music for a few years after her father died and man, she has come |
| 1:18.7 | back with a vengeance. |
| 1:20.2 | She's also celebrating her 80th birthday in July and as a prelude to that has done a handful of these |
| 1:26.0 | star-studded concerts across the country, which is really incredible to see all these luminaries |
| 1:31.9 | coming out to celebrate her legacy. |
| 1:34.4 | So we're going to take this chance to revisit our interview with her from 2017. |
| 1:38.8 | You wrote the definitive biography of Mavis Staples. I'll take you there. Mavis Staples, the |
| 1:45.0 | Staple Singers, and the music that shaped the civil rights movement. A |
| 1:48.2 | fantastic Reed came out in 2014. Who is Mavis Staples? |
| 1:53.0 | Well, it's a grand story, Jim. It spans 20th century music and on into the 21st century. |
| 1:58.0 | It starts with her father, Pop Staples, who grew up on Dockery Farm in Mississippi and learned the blues guitar at the feet of the |
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