#Pops Staples

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The Staple Singers - Power of Love (1968)

Recorded as the Staples were moving to secular music, there's still a strong gospel sound backing Mavis' powerful and gritty vocals. Cool guitar by Pops, as well.

[nedison]

While I was hoping that the SNL 50th Anniversary Special would highlight some of the more avant-garde and odd moments in the show's history, I was a little disappointed that some of my favorite hosts weren't mentioned or included in any of the clip packages or montages. So here's my ranking of the Top Five SNL Hosts of All Time:

5) LEONARD COHEN (1985)

4) POPS STAPLES (1981)

3) DAGMAR KRAUSE (1987)

2) PETER GREENAWAY (1991)

1) bell hooks (1998)

[julio-viernes]

Nick Lowe en "Different Kind of Blue", plácida, reflexiva, otra favorita de "Indoor Safari". Que clase y que estilo. La interpreta aparentemente sin esfuerzo, como si fuera Pops Staples en "The Weight". Suavemente. Es otro tipo de soul, sin malabarismos ni ímprobos esfuerzos vocales, pero con verdad, que es lo que el soul se supone debe tener.

[whatamigonnawatchtoday]

True Stories

1986. Satirical Musical Comedy

By David Byrne

Starring: David Byrne, John Goodman, Spalding Gray, Annie McEnroe, Swoosie Kurtz, Pops Staples, John Ingle, Tito Larriva, Jo Harvey Allen, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison

Country: United States

Language: English

[sunset-supergirl]

Happy birthday Pops Staples

[krispyweiss]

Blind Boys of Alabama at Mershon Auditorium, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 15, 2023

The voices change, but the Blind Boys of Alabama endure. And though the group that kicked off its tour in Columbus, Ohio, was different, one thing was the same:

Sound Bites always leaves a Blind Boys concert feeling better than he did walking in.

So it went Nov. 15, when the new-look group enthralled fans who filled about one-third of Mershon Auditorium’s 2,500 seats when they weren’t dancing and clapping to the tent-revival stylings of “Send it on Down,” from 2023’s Echoes of the South.

Between the recording and release of that album, longtime members Ben Moore and Paul Beasley died and 91-year-old Jimmy Carter, the last remaining tie to the group’s 1939 origins at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Deaf and Blind, retired. That left Rickie McKinnie, who joined in the 1980s, and sighted music director/guitarist Joey Williams to lead three new singers and their three-piece (bass, drums and keys) band through an electrifying, 16-song performance that found new member J.W. being led through the audience during “Send it on Down” and Sterling Glass testifying to his rapid recovery from recent surgery during “I'm a Soldier in the Army of the Lord,” which transformed the concert into a church service’s celebration of faith.

It’s a faith so sincere, no one could deny the Blind Boys as they sang “I Can See” from 2017’s Almost Home, the band’s last studio album with late co-founder Clarence Fountain. Perhaps the singers see differently, but they clearly see something not all folks can.

The 2023 band is relatively new - and comparatively young - but they’ve already synched up vocally and sound as if they’ve been singing together for decades. And while Fountain and Carter are missed, the 71-year-old McKinnie is well-suited to be the Blind Boys’ third leader in 84 years.

Clad in snappy red suits with bow ties, the singers were led onstage with arms on shoulders and, after taking their seats at the front of the stage, quickly lit into Ruthie Foster’s “Lord, Remember Me.”

The Blind Boys ultimately spent less time seated than the audience, standing for solos and dancing to the music.

Foster’s was one of many spiritual songs by secular artists including the Impressions’ “People Get Ready,” Tom Waits’ “Down in the Hole,” Willie Nelson’s “Uncloudy Day” and Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky,” whose jackhammer rhythm had McKinnie standing and turning 360 degrees in sheer mystical and musical ecstasy.

Williams, who also plays with Robert Randolph and the Family Band, traded licks with the bassist, who picked up an electric resonator for “Nobody’s Fault but Mine” and took a few solo lines at the mic on Pop Staples’ “Friendship” and Stevie Wonder’s “Heaven Help us All,” both of which are culled from Echoes.

The homestretch of the 90-minute show began with the Blind Boys’ signature mashup of “Amazing Grace” set to the melody of “House of the Rising Sun.” And when they reopened Wonder’s songbook to encore with “Higher Ground,” there wasn’t a soul - or a sole person - in the place who hadn’t ascended, at least temporarily, to another plane.

Grade card: Blind Boys of Alabama at Mershon Auditorium - 11/15/23 - A

See more photos on Sound Bites’ Facebook page.

11/16/23

[amygdalae]

I'm working on a Halloween party playlist teehee

[the-punforgiven]

Alright vampires vs werewolves has been done to death, let's do things differently

(Better can be by whatever metric you think is most important)

[cctinsleybaxter]

Everything about this is so painfully 2017 it wraps back around to being a little funny

[nosusanimprettysureitsalama]

I feel like we got over Nimona way too quickly as a society

[otrtbs]

and furthermore pilgrimrry was just misunderstood and people didn’t get the vision like i got the vision. and i could, and do, love pilgrimrry despite the public denouncement

[nedison]

We The People - The Staple Singers (1972)

[notabuddhist]

oh ALSO yesterday went to my rents where mum had found one of the photo collages my sister had made for my 30th back when it passed, so picked that up to bring over, and ALSO found a thing i'd apparently made for gcse art and like. actually i will be framing that and putting it up because i love it?? well done 15-year-old me, that's fucking grand.

[ghostlyheart]

I'm all caught up on Ghosts (fianlly!). This week's episode was so cute. I loved the parallel lines of "rebound" relationships with Hetty's and Isaac's plots. Both of them sacrificed their own happiness for someone else's sake. Look how far they've come :') Sass and Alberta's running commentary was also a highlight, as was Sam and Jay's terrible acting. Really loved this one (even though I had to watch half of it through my hands because of the second-hand embarrassment)