Sunday, April 27, 2025

Joss Stone with Mavis Staples - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 8-24-2005

Here's another episode of "PBS Soundstage," from 2005. It mainly stars Joss Stone, but there is a section in the middle featuring Mavis Staples. Then Stone and Staples sing the final song together. 

Stone is a talented British singer with a soulful voice. She had her most success with her first two albums. "The Soul Sessions," an all-covers album released in 2003, sold several million copies worldwide. "Mind Body & Soul," released in late 2004, mostly consisted of songs she co-wrote with others, and also sold several million copies worldwide. Since then, her sales have gone down a lot, but at the time of this concert she was a very big star. Overall, she's sold about 15 million albums worldwide.

Here's her Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Joss Stone - Wikipedia 

Mavis Staples has had a very different career path. She was born back in 1939, and is 85 years old as I write this in April 2025, yet she continues to record and tour. She became a member of a family band, the Staple Singers, back in 1950, when she was only 11 years old. She was the main lead singer for the Staple Singers, though not the only one, and sang lead on major hits like "Respect Yourself," "I'll Take You There," and "Let's Do It Again." The Staple Singers broke up in 2000 when band leader (and her father) Pop Staples died. But Mavis Staples has kept very busy with her musical career since then. She's released about two dozen solo albums, if one includes both studio and live ones.

Here's her Wikipedia entry:

Mavis Staples - Wikipedia 

Stone and Staples make a good pairing, despite a big age difference, since they both sing soul music. Most of the songs here are covers, including a version of "Under Pressure," originally by David Bowie and Queen, which Stone only released on a various artists tribute album to Queen. (Mavis Staples didn't have a role in writing the Staples Singers hit she sang here, "The Weight," "Respect Yourself," and "I'll Take You There," so I consider those covers too.)

This unreleased album is 55 minutes long.

01 Super Duper Love [Are You Diggin' on Me] (Joss Stone)
02 talk (Joss Stone)
03 Fell in Love with a Boy (Joss Stone)
04 Under Pressure (Joss Stone)
05 talk (Mavis Staples)
06 Have a Little Faith (Mavis Staples)
07 talk (Mavis Staples)
08 The Weight (Mavis Staples)
09 talk (Mavis Staples)
10 Respect Yourself (Mavis Staples)
11 The Chokin' Kind (Joss Stone)
12 talk (Joss Stone)
13 Right to Be Wrong (Joss Stone)
14 talk (Joss Stone)
15 You Had Me (Joss Stone)
16 talk (Joss Stone)
17 Spoiled (Joss Stone)
18 I'll Take You There (Joss Stone & Mavis Staples)
19 talk (Joss Stone & Mavis Staples)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SD52Un8e

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/mDWzzVn2tS0C0Xi/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Paul
    just letting you know that the pixeldrain (?) link is for a Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald show
    the other link gets you to Joss & Mavis - great show by the way
    Many thanks (and any more of Mavis in the offing??)

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    1. Thanks, it should be fixed now. And sorry, no, no more Mavis that I know of.

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