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Chicago soul and gospel legend Mavis Staples talks about Pops and her family��
Recorded in a whirlwind 24 hours at Memphis’s fabled Stax studio, Otis Blue was a landmark record – making a star out of OTIS REDDING and rewriting the rulebook for rhythm & blues. In its 60th anniversary year, collaborators and eyewitnesses look back at the soul giant’s blistering, urgent and emotional masterpiece. “He was a great performer, a wonderful man,” Smokey Robinson tells Stephen Deusner
Mavis continues setting the world to rights with one of the best albums of her triumphant second act.
A teenager’s unusual folk-soul experiment comes around again.
The film that introduced the world to reggae, on stage
A few years ago, Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr were interviewed for a BBC documentary about music’s messiest break-ups. Which may seem like an odd booking, given the pair’s famously adamantine bond. B
IN THE HUSHED YET AIRY “COCKTAIL PARLOUR” ...