Mavis Staples has been more than six decades. One real vine Her second joint cooperation with Wilco frontman Jeff Twidi.
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Mavis Staples has been more than six decades. One real vine Her second joint cooperation with Wilco frontman Jeff Twidi.
Zoran Orlica/Pondly provided by the artist
From small country churches to stages of civil rights to the Hall of Glory Rock -N -Roll, Mavis Staples“Career covered more than 60 years.
The legend of the Gospel showed no interest in retirement. Her new album, One real vineher second cooperation with VilkoS. Jeff Twidi.
“This is a completely different compact -dissection,” says Steaples Neil Conan from NPR. “This is a return to my beginning. As far as I understand, it brought me a full circle. I moved from strictly the gospel to the people to the country, and here I returned home, where I started. “
Steaps began to sing with her family group The Staple Singer, when she was 13 years old. She says that her last album reminds her of how she to sing with her family, and that she is always trying to sing at least one song written by her father, Pops's shirt Steaples, which died in 2000. One real vine Includes “I like things about me”, a song in which her dad sang leadership.
Steaples says that this was a problem to sing his role: “Pops, he was a singer. I loved to hear my father sing. He was just so relaxed and cool. I always wanted me to sing like pop. ”
She says that her father taught her to just sing from her heart and allow this to flow. “Just be Mavis,” he said.
Steaples still sings with his sister Ivnaya. “When Pops passed,” says Steaples, “Ivonn tried to tell me to continue and sing, and she would take care of my business.”
Steaples says that she went on stage about three times, but something was missing.
“I had no family on stage with me,” she says. “I got out of this stage and said:“ Listen, Yvonn, you have to sing. I need to hear at least one main voice on this scene. ” “
Ivonn still sings a backup for his sister along with two other singers.
Cooperation with Jeff Twidi
Producer Jeff Twidi wrote three songs for the album: “Every Step”, “Jesus Plat” and the title track “One real vine”. She says that in Twidi's songs he wrote that it was a couple of times when they filed with love with opinions about style and delivery.
“He was lucky that he was in the engineering room, and I could not get to him to shake him,” says Steaples. “But I continued and did it in my own way, and I tell you that I am grateful. I learned something new. “
Then Steaples says that she hopes to make a country album, as well as a tribute to Bob Dylan: “I'm always trying to find new things,” she says. “I don't know what I am going to. My next compact -dissection may be a country, maybe Dylan, maybe Mick Jagger. I don't know. I like the call. “
