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I'll Take You There
Greg Kot
Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom's Highway
Scribner
February 2014
On Sale: January 21, 2014
320 pages ISBN: 1451647859 EAN: 9781451647853 Kindle: B00BSAZ542 Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
This is the untold story of living legend Mavis Staples—lead
singer of the Staple Singers and a major figure in the music
that shaped the civil rights era. Now in her seventies,
Mavis has been a fixture in the music world for decades. One
of the most enduring artists of popular music, she and her
family fused gospel, soul, folk, and rock to transcend
racism and oppression through song. Honing her prodigious
talent on the Southern gospel circuit of the 1950s, Mavis
and the Staple Singers went on to sell more than 30 million
records, with message-oriented soul music that became a
sound track to the civil rights movement—inspiring Martin
Luther King Jr. himself. Critically acclaimed
biographer and Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot
cuts to the heart of Mavis Staples’s music, revealing the
intimate stories of her sixty-year career. From her love
affair with Bob Dylan, to her creative collaborations with
Prince, to her recent revival alongside Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy,
this definitive account shows Mavis as you’ve never seen her
before. I’ll Take You There was written with the
complete cooperation of Mavis and her family. Readers will
also hear from Prince, Bonnie Raitt, David Byrne, Marty
Stuart, Ry Cooder, Steve Cropper, and many other individuals
whose lives have been influenced by Mavis’s talent.
Filled with never-before-told stories, this fascinating
biography illuminates a legendary singer and group during a
historic period of change in America.
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