Mavis Staples remembers ... Ms. Staples was a child when she started singing with her father (Roebuck “Pops” Staples) and siblings (Cleotha, Yvonne, and Pervis) in the 1940s.
Pops’ “I Like The Things About Me”, which Mavis sang with him at the Wattstax festival, is one of the ten offerings here in a selection that is unabashedly religious but which takes some ...