The Staple Singers – This Little Light (1966/2016) [HDTracks FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

The Staple Singers – This Little Light (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:08 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: R&B, Gospel, Soul
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Booklet, Front Cover | © Riverside Records / Concord Music
Recorded: 1962-1964, Chicago, IL

This 1966 release, one of four gospel-based albums the Staple Singers recorded for the Riverside label in the early 1960s, includes the powerful civil rights anthem and title track This Little Light Of Mine, a signature song for the group and Mavis Staples for years to follow. The album also contains two Bob Dylan covers.

The Staples’ story goes all the way back to 1915 in Winona, Mississippi, when patriarch Roebuck “Pops” Staples entered the world. A contemporary and familiar of Charley Patton’s, Roebuck quickly became adept as a solo blues guitarist, entertaining at local dances and picnics. He was also drawn to the church, and by 1937 he was singing and playing guitar with the Golden Trumpets, a spiritual group based out of Drew, Mississippi. Moving to Chicago four years later, he continued playing gospel music with the Windy City’s Trumpet Jubilees. A decade later Pops Staples (as he had become known) presented two of his daughters, Cleotha and Mavis, and his one son, Pervis, in front of a church audience, and the Staple Singers were born.
The Staples recorded in an older, slightly archaic, deeply Southern spiritual style first for United and then for Vee-Jay. Pops and Mavis Staples shared lead vocal chores, with most records underpinned by Pops’ heavily reverbed Mississippi cotton-patch guitar. In 1960 the Staples signed with Riverside, a label that specialized in jazz and folk. With Riverside and later Epic, the Staples attempted to move into the then-burgeoning white folk boom. Two Epic releases, “Why (Am I Treated So Bad)” and a cover of Stephen Stills’ “For What It’s Worth,” briefly graced the pop charts in 1967.
In 1968 the Staples signed with Memphis-based Stax. The first two albums, Soul Folk in Action and We’ll Get Over, were produced by Steve Cropper and backed by Booker T. & the MG’s. The Staples were now singing entirely contemporary “message” songs such as “Long Walk to D.C.” and “When Will We Be Paid.” In 1970 Pervis Staples left and was replaced by sister Yvonne Staples. Even more significantly, Al Bell took over production chores. Bell took them down the road to Muscle Shoals, and things got decidedly funky.
Starting with “Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom Boom)” and “I’ll Take You There,” the Staples counted 12 chart hits at Stax. When Stax encountered financial problems, Curtis Mayfield signed the Staples to his Curtom label and produced a number one hit in “Let’s Do It Again.” The Staples went on to continued chart success, albeit less spectacularly, with Warner, through 1979. One more album followed on 20th Century Fox in 1981. After a three-year hiatus, they signed a two-album deal with Private I and hit the R&B charts five more times, once with an unlikely cover of Talking Heads’ “Slippery People.”
The Staple Singers found a new audience in 1994 when they teamed with Marty Stuart to perform “The Weight” on the Rhythm, Country & Blues LP for MCA. Sadly, Pops passed away on December 19, 2000, shortly after suffering a concussion due to a fall in his home. Cleotha died in February 2013 after a decade with Alzheimer’s disease. Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, Mavis released excellent solo material for the Alligator and Anti labels. In 2015, Concord released a four-disc Staples box set, Faith and Grace: A Family Journey 1953-1976. -Artist Biography by Rob Bowman

Tracklist:
1 This Little Light Of Mine 02:40
2 What Are They Doing 02:13
3 Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall 07:32
4 You Got Shoes 02:38
5 Will The Lord Remember Me 02:53
6 My Dying Bed 02:32
7 Masters of War 04:38
8 Let Jesus Lead You 02:19
9 Prayin’ Time 02:13
10 Use What You Got 02:13
11 I Can’t Help From Cryin’ Sometime 02:17

Personnel:
Mavis Staples, Purvis Staples, Yvonne Staples, vocals
Roebuck Staples, vocals, guitar
Maceo Woods, organ
Johnny Pate, bass
Phil Upchurch, electric bass
Al Duncan, drums

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