Mavis Staples 10/8/15 Rialto Theatre Tucson, AZ
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Some came from New York, some from Las Vegas. Others traveled from rural America, where family farmers struggle most. No matter where they followed the white line from, all came to Farm Aid 30 for the same two reasons: the music and the […]
“I dreamed I saw St. Augustine Alive as you or me” – Bob Dylan “I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine” from John Wesley Harding 1967 St Augustine in Florida is America’s oldest continuously occupied European settlement. It was founded by […]
David Bromberg knows what makes a great show. He once played solo and gave a stirring rendition of Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Mr. Bojangles” before 600,000 people at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival in Great Britain. He also recently teamed with […]
Mavis Staples has a laugh, oh, does she have a laugh, warm and full and open. It surfaces when she is talking about calling a certain former president Bubba, when she is talking about going over songs for her first collaboration […]
While the Grammy’s debate rages on (yes, I’m Team Beck), I think we could all use an album to start the new year that reminds us of a time when good music was simply good music, and artistry and performance were […]
Music tells a truer story of America than our politics does. Maybe it was happenstance. Maybe it was the surge line of a big trend. Either way, 2014 was the Year of the Woman for the more than 60 concerts […]
Although Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin both achieved higher artistic renown, no one has united the worlds of spiritual and secular music as seamlessly as Mavis Staples. Where Aretha and Sam Cooke were seen as switching from the former to […]
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