Classic Staples

[Kamasu_Jr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJhSIl-ABhM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGGzqSpUNHo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47SSmx0IJEI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_dkXyOJ_Oo

I like the hand clapping on this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boc0273hRKs

The Staple Singers are one of music's most distinctive families. They're musical career includes delta blues, gospel, folk, soul folk, soul, disco and funk. No disrespect to Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary and the like, but I prefer the classic or traditional sounds of gospel.

[splanky]

I am totally with you on this, Kam. This is an argument I'v been having with some folks
for years...To me, gospel music lost a lot of it's power and spirit with the late 80's-90's
so called upgrades...I know he probably has fans on the forum but I never got Kirk Franklin
and though I think they can sing I don't get the same feeling from Mary Mary as I did Shirley Ceaser or Albertina Walker. It's like fashion, look and style come before the music; I don't know how to explain my interpretation any better...Anyway, the Staples did mix genres
throughout their carreer but they always sounded like compassion and a strong dose of pure love. I needed to hear that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdKdWViwjiU

[MIKEW-UK]

Great song "We'll Get Over" by The Staples, and by Darrell Banks......


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNZ1xt7n9GA

Darrell Banks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BypJxSWuVSI

[Kamasu_Jr]

I am totally with you on this, Kam. This is an argument I'v been having with some folks
for years...To me, gospel music lost a lot of it's power and spirit with the late 80's-90's
so called upgrades...I know he probably has fans on the forum but I never got Kirk Franklin
and though I think they can sing I don't get the same feeling from Mary Mary as I did Shirley Ceaser or Albertina Walker. It's like fashion, look and style come before the music; I don't know how to explain my interpretation any better...Anyway, the Staples did mix genres
throughout their carreer but they always sounded like compassion and a strong dose of pure love. I needed to hear that...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdKdWViwjiU


Splank, I got my love for the Staples from my dad. They are his favorite gospel group of all time. My grandfather was a gospel singer and one of his group members wondered why my dad [[as a child) loved the Staples so and not my dad's group. Some folk thought the Staples were "country" and old timey. My grandfather said my father heard something simple & sincere in the Staples' music.
Your comments about contemporary gospel was interesting.
Kirk Franklin probably thinks of himself as the James Brown of gospel with all his stepping and fancy dancing. But Shirley Caesar once said: "Gospel and the church does not need things from the world. Now we've got gospel singers dancing and popping their fingers in church and women dressing sexy..."

[Kamasu_Jr]

More hand clapping, foot stomping soul from Mavis & her family.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7_b_jyRVRc

[copley]

I'm a huge fan of the Staples & Mavis. Real music with soul:)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1II2nPmBZJk

[heikki]

Hi!

"The Last Time" was supposed to be the first Rolling Stones original song. Please listen to "This May Be The Last Time" by the Staple Singers from the 50s; true, an old folk/spiritual song.

Best regards
Heikki

[Kamasu_Jr]

A personal favorite frm the Stax years, specifically the Beatitudes LP, which summed up everything the Staples were about up to that point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBLC5VVcQrY [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBLC5VVcQrY)

[zebop]

I love the Staples. Those Stax albums, before the biggest hits and after are simply and uniformly brilliant tracks. They were contemporary, rootsy, authentic and very singular.

I remember I read James Brown telling Pops not to leave the groove of "I'll Take You There," you know, that sound. Well, they did. And to that end, I never "loved" "Let's Do it Again" and that album with Curtis Mayfield, "Pass it On" is awful in my opinion. I'm not too keen on the Let's Do it Again album to be honest...

It's sad that they couldn't have continued in that early to mid '70s vein, only updated. I think they still had some great songs in them, well, songs with messages that is.

[soulster]

I am only familiar with their music 1971-1975, and, that, of course, means their hit period.

Their two big Stax albums are what I have, and they are among the finest in my collection. But, I also like the "Let's Do It Again" soundtrack because I like Curtis Mayfield's sound. He gave the same sound to Gladys Knight & The Pips with "Claudine", and Aretha Franklin's "Sparkle" from the same period.

I've never been much for gospel music, and did not grow up with it. In fact, the first gospel music I ever heard...and loved is "Oh Happy Day" by the Edwin Hawkins Singers. The rest of what I heard growing up is soul music, which is a secular mixture of blues and gospel.

Yeah, i'm about to plug the 88.2/24-bit hi-rez version of "Be Altitude: Respect Yourself" from HD tracks. Sounds great!

One of these days, I plan to explore their folk music from the 60s.

[Kamasu_Jr]

I love the Staples. Those Stax albums, before the biggest hits and after are simply and uniformly brilliant tracks. They were contemporary, rootsy, authentic and very singular.

I remember I read James Brown telling Pops not to leave the groove of "I'll Take You There," you know, that sound. Well, they did. And to that end, I never "loved" "Let's Do it Again" and that album with Curtis Mayfield, "Pass it On" is awful in my opinion. I'm not too keen on the Let's Do it Again album to be honest...

It's sad that they couldn't have continued in that early to mid '70s vein, only updated. I think they still had some great songs in them, well, songs with messages that is.


I agree with you about Pass It On. I didn't like that one at all. I agree, the Staples kind of stepped a bit too far over into secular and that's when the problems started. But they got back to their roots with subsequent LPs.

[reese]

From the Stax days, I particularly like the early albums like SOUL FOLK IN ACTION and WE'LL GET OVER album. The latter has a great rendition of A WEDNESDAY IN YOUR GARDEN.

From the Warner years, the LET'S DO IT AGAIN album is a fave. But after that, I only liked a few songs here and there, like their rendition of I HONESTLY LOVE YOU.

The last album on Epic, WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE, is very good as well.

[summer96]

Mavis Staples needs to write a tell all book LOL

[Boogiedown]

Good Gosh Almighty Now!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdKdWViwjiU