Music for Grownups: Mavis Staples Live
By: Richard Gehr | Source: AARP.org | 2008-11-13
Richard Gehr is a veteran music critic based in New York City. His reviews for AARP.org appear every Tuesday; his columns on Thursdays.
Mavis Staples has been performing for more than 50 years. Her recent, boisterous set at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill revisited the impassioned days of the civil rights movement, for which gospel provided the soundtrack.
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