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  • 1 year later...

Pretty good article about Mavis in today's NY Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/arts/music/mavis-staplesno-longer-wants-tomake-you-cry.html?_r=0

 

This was news to me:

 

The documentary notes that Bob Dylan proposed to Ms. Staples when their paths crossed on the folk and civil-rights circuit. Their first kiss was at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, Ms. Staples said in the 2014 book "I'll Take You There" by the Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot. “It was always in my mind that I couldn’t marry a white guy. I was so young and stupid,” she told Mr. Kot. “To this day, I could kick myself, because we were really in love. It was my first love, and it was the one I lost.”

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The Bob Dylan proposal story is fairly well known and a staple of Mavis' interviews.   

 

Its cool and weird that Mavis won a Grammy for a very old song on a one off EP that seems sort of lack luster to me. I just bought a copy and listened a couple times and figure it will be sitting gathering dust on the shelf for a long time. Looking forward to the M. Ward album when it finally shows up on LP though.

 

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I can't think of a single performer who has bad a better late career resurgence than Mavis. Starting with "Have a Little Faith" on Alligator and produced by Jim Tullio in 2004, she has had a string of winners over the last decade. May the string continue. 

 

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