.MavisStaples looks back on the Stax years. Catch the new episode of MemphisMasters
Back in 1968, a deal with Stax Records vaulted the Staple Singers from a stripped-down family gospel act to a soul music powerhouse whose enduring hits -- including "I'll Take You There," "Respect Yourself" and "If You're Ready " -- led the quartet's way into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and to a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.Come Go With Me: The Stax Collection series, a new episode of which is premiering below.
"Meeting all the people at Stax, it was just always fun times. It was like family. Anytime we went to Stax it was like we were having a reunion, 'cause here comes Otis Redding and we got Mack Rice. And the ladies, too -- Carla Thomas and everybody, they were all sisters. And Jim Stewart, the owner, he was so comical. It was a beautiful time."
The Staples' tenure at Stax was notable for the perceived move from gospel to secular music, but Mavis Staples says she and her sisters and father never saw it that way. "To tell the truth, we never felt like we were singing secular songs. They were all gospel to us," she recalls. "After 'I'll Take You There' they put us out of the church.
Part of the Staples' legacy that she's perhaps less happy about, however, is how the group's Civil Rights anthems -- "Respect Yourself," "I'm Just Another Soldier," "Freedom Highway" and "Why Am I Treated So Bad" -- remain as relevant today as they did at the time they were released. "It is heartbreaking that we are still where we were in Civil Rights," says Staples, who during a recent concert in Ann Arbor, Mich.
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