By Andrew Perry, eMusic ContributorTo celebrate Billy Bragg's being honored for his Outstanding Contribution to Music at the Association of Independent Music awards 2013, we invited him to burrow through eMusic's vast catalog and pick out some of his… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorEvery week, eMusic's editorial team assembles a newsletter called The Crib Sheet, which features the five new records we think are essential listening. This is your chance to tell us what you think of the… more »
By Barry Walters, eMusic ContributorDecades after her 1969 solo debut and a whopping 63 years since she joined her family in the Staple Singers, septuagenarian Mavis Staples is once again doing work that eclipses records of singers a third… more »
By John Morthland, eMusic ContributorThese are not easy times for blues. That's been true much of the time since Bruce Iglauer founded Alligator Records in Chicago in 1971, after he couldn't convince other local blues labels to record Hound… more »
By Andy Beta, eMusic ContributorDespite the fact that they spent two decades releasing inspired folk-gospel music, it was when the Staple Singers embraced R&B and soul that they gained mainstream success. The second album cut at Muscle Shoals, Be… more »
By Barry Walters, eMusic ContributorLet's not mince words: Former Staple Singers vocalist and soul/gospel queen Mavis Staples has one of the greatest voices of any living singer regardless of gender or genre, and the extraordinary expressiveness of that voice… more »
By Barry Walters, eMusic ContributorFew singers bridge the gospel/pop-soul divide with as much grace and down-home feeling as the former lead vocalist of the Staple Singers. In this remarkable collaboration with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, 71-year-old Mavis Staples inhabits a… more »
By Richard Gehr, eMusic ContributorHas a musical genre ever been stuck with a more ethnocentric and just plain silly name than "world music"? If folk music is music performed and passed along by folks, world music is made, well,… more »