“You ain’t gonna do it!” Mavis Staples was insistent, fired up, growling those words on stage at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, CA last Thursday, her
Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples perform onstage during the Mavis Staples' 85th: All-Star Birthday Celebration at YouTube Theater on April 18, 2024 in Inglewood, California. Mavis Staples was insistent, fired up, growling those words on stage at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, CA last Thursday, her blue duster shaking around her tensed, compact body.What she wasn’t going to do was, as the spiritual she was singing says, “let nobody turn me around.
She’s the last of her singing family now, with brother Pervis having died in 2021. She’s also one of the last living links to the golden age of gospel and the righteous soul of the ‘60s and ‘70s and, most emphatically, to that struggle for justice. Peak moments were plentiful. The War and Treaty — married couple Michael and Tanya Trotter — shook the rafters with a feisty version of the Staple Singers’ 1972 hit “Respect Yourself.” Black Pumas sparkled with a deeply soulful pairing of their own humanity-embracing anthem “Colors” and the Staple Singers’ sly “Can You Get To That,” Eric Burton’s voice lifting the crowd to its feet.
At the other end of the timeline was Hozier, half a century younger than Staples, who offered his “Nina Cried Power” and thanked her for her role in the civil rights movement here, which he said inspired a civil rights movement in his native Ireland. … with the Staple Singers’ 1973 hit “If You’re Ready,” the first of the five songs in her featured set in which she parlayed her power with playfulness.
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