Mavis Staples
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Legendary singer and Civil Rights activist Mavis Staples has teamed with an award-winning children's poet to share her rousing life story in this spectacular picture book. At 85, Mavis Staples is still singing in front of large audiences and sharing her message of love, faith, and justice. She's been performing since age eight as part of her family's gospel group The Staple Singers, and has become one of America's most admired musicians, with multiple...
16) We are
Author
Publication Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A career-changing album from musician and activist Jon Batiste celebrates Black American culture and music while exploring themes of lineage, authenticity, excellence, and evolution. This album is about honoring roots and traditions while looking forward to the future and constantly evolving.
Author
Publisher
RCA Records
Publication Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
The amazing new studio album from Buddy Guy is the legend's 34th, and the follow-up to 2018's Grammy-winning The Blues Is Alive and Well. Produced by songwriter/drummer Tom Hambridge, it features guests including Mavis Staples, Elvis Costello, James Taylor, Jason Isbell, and more. The album released exactly 65 years to the day that Buddy Guy arrived in Chicago on a train from Baton Rouge in September of 1957 with just the clothes on his back and his...