Mavis Staples Biography
Clip: 1/23/2014 | 14m 56s
Music critic Greg Kot joins us on to talk his new biography on Mavis Staples.
A new book details the life of one of the most enduring artists in popular music: Mavis Staples. Author and Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot discusses his biography, I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, The Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom’s Highway.
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Mavis Staples Biography
Clip: 1/23/2014 | 14m 56s
A new book details the life of one of the most enduring artists in popular music: Mavis Staples. Author and Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot discusses his biography, I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, The Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom’s Highway.
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