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Tuesday, August 11 2009 |
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On a sunny Saturday evening in August Mavis Staples rocked the 50th Annual Newport Folk Festival. Sandwiched in-between acts Tom Morello and Iron & Wine the gospel/soul/rock legend showed 'em how it's done! Here's a link to an NPR live recording of the show. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111367884 |
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Wednesday, January 21 2009 |
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" 'We've come tonight to bring you some joy, some happiness, inspiration and some positive vibrations!' Mavis Staples tells the audience at Chicago's Hideout club, a promise she stylishly fulfills in a set drawn predominantly from last year's Ry Cooder produced We'll Never Turn Back album of civil rights anthems and blues. There's not a dull moment in earshot, whether she's personalising JB Lenoir's 'Down In Mississippi' with her own recollections of drinking fountain apartheid, engaging in a call and response workout with the audience on 'Wade In The Water', or leading them in sing-a-longs of 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken' and the Staples Singers hit 'I'll take You There'. Her voice's larygitic burr is extraordinarily potent for a 69 year old, and there's a frisson of hope discernible in the delivery of a song like 'Eyes On The Prize', a civil rights rallying cry lent fresh pertinence by Barack Obama's campaign for the US presidency. And major kudos to the guitarist Rick Holmstrom, who turns in a virtuoso performance completely concealing the sparseness of the rest of the line-up. 5 Stars."
-- The Independent (London, UK newspaper) September 11, 2008
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Tuesday, December 04 2007 |
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A soggy someone posted this live clip of RHB powering through pouring down rain at the 2007 Diversity Festival in Pittsburgh, PA. That's Rick, Hodges and Jeff. You can also see Yvonne Staples, Donny Gerrard and Chavonne Morris (backup singers with Mavis) clapping hands in the back. And of course that's Mavis Staples' HUGE voice urging the band on! It's a cool clip. Check it...
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Wednesday, November 21 2007 |
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Look for the south bay weekly paper Easy Reader this week. There's a story on Rick, or so we've been told, complete with a photo and interview. Look for RHB at Cafe Boogaloo this Friday Nov 23...Stephen Hodges, Jeff Turmes and Rick will tear it up from 9:30 PM 'til the cops shut it down. Work off your turkey day calories and then some. See below for the link to the Easy Reader story... |
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