Homer Banksâ demo version of The Staple Singers' 1973 hit âIf Youâre Ready (Come Go With Me)â is out now! Banks wrote the track with fellow âȘ@Staxrecords⏠songwriters Raymond Jackson and Carl Hampton. The Staple Singers then recorded it for their album BE WHAT YOU ARE, and it eventually reached the top of the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart and no. 9 on the Hot 100.
The track is one of three songs available now from the forthcoming WRITTEN IN THEIR SOUL: THE STAX SONGWRITER DEMOS collection, which features 146 recordings from the Stax vaults and is out in full on June 23. Watch the new video for âIf Youâre Ready (Come Go With Me)â below, and pre-order/pre-save the collection at staxrecords.com!
Presenting⊠the WATTSTAX 50th Anniversary Collection, OUT NOW! đ âȘ@Staxrecords⏠and âȘ@CraftRecordings⏠are proud to share an extensive collection of reissues to commemorate the epic Wattstax Benefit Concert held at the L.A. Coliseum in August 1972.Â
Listen to The Staple Singers' performance of "I Like The Things About Me" below, and find the full collection here: found.ee/Wattstax50
BIRTHRIGHT: A BLACK ROOTS MUSIC COMPENDIUM is out now via âȘ@CraftRecordingsâŹ! This 40-song celebration of American Black roots music spans genres and generations and showcases the influence Black roots traditions continue to have on the music of today.
The compilation features countless legendary artists, including THE STAPLE SINGERS! Listen to their recording of âMotherless Childrenâ below and find the full collection here: found.ee/birthright
A new 180-gram all-analog stereo vinyl edition of the The Staple Singersâ Christmas record, The Twenty-Fifth Day of December will be available at #RSDBlackFriday on November 26th! Find your nearest participating store here: found.ee/rsdbf2021-stores
This weekend was kicked off by a special birthday! We celebrate the birthday of Mavis Staples (July 10, 1939), the civil rights icon who started her musical career started as a member of the legendary Staple Singers, and went on to form an equally iconic body of work in her solo career as well. Staples was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017. The brand-new playlist Mavis Through The Decades chronicles her finest works, both solo and with The Staple Singers.
Listen to it wherever you get your music here: found.ee/mavis-through-the-decades-playlist-g
Pervis Staples, a co-founding member of the Staple Singers, died May 6th at his home in Dolton, Illinois. He was 85. Rest easy, Pervis. You will not be forgotten.
The Staple Singers' 1972 anthem "We The People" was included in the Raedio Presents: Joe Biden + Kamala Harris 2021 Inauguration Playlist. Here's to feeling the joy and hope in this music as we near the historic day.
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TODAY ONLY! Enter to win this Craft Recordings prize package from uDiscover: udiscover.lnk.to/fg-day9
It includes The Staple Singers' Come Go With Me box set, the special snowball variant of A Charlie Brown Christmas, a classic Stax Records fingersnap tee, the blue and white marbled edition of Charles Brown's Cool Christmas Blues, and George Thorogood & The Destroyers' Live in Boston, 1982: The Complete Concert.
The Staple Singers' box set Come Go With Me: The Stax Collection is out now on CD!
Order it here: found.ee/staplesingers-7CD-staxstore-g
Come Go With Me presents all of the groupâs studio albums released on the iconic Memphis label, spanning 1968â1974, and features the Staplesâ biggest hits, including âIâll Take You There,â âRespect Yourselfâ and âIf Youâre Ready (Come Go with Me).â Each album was remastered from the original analog masters by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl, while the seventh disc offers rarities, non-album singles and live recordings from the legendary 1972 Wattstax music festival. Housed in a slipcase, the seven-disc collection also includes a booklet with archival photos and liner notes from American music specialist and curator Levon Williams (formerly of the Stax Museum and the National Museum of African American Music), and folklorist, ethnomusicologist and writer Dr. Langston Wilkins.
From their gospel beginnings to the height of their stardom, the Staple Singers traveled a long and artistically rich road into the mainstream of American musicâŻÌ¶âŻ notâŻonly becoming some of the most important voices in soul music, but also in the Civil Rights movement. Helmed by patriarch Roebuck âPopsâ Staples, the Chicago-based group included daughtersâŻCleothaâŻand Mavis, as well as son Pervis (later replaced by his sister Yvonne). The gospel quartet began making appearances at local churches in 1948, and seven-year old Mavis quickly became the breakout star, sharing the lead with her father â her uniquely deep and soulful vocals a perfect match to Popsâ delicate, winsome tenor.