Mavis_Staples

Independent Twitter site honoring the great Mavis, written with unending appreciation by the Miami Herald columnist and host of The Greg Cote Show podcast.

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Mavis joins another living legend on his new song. Listen here: https://t.co/PctETuJBOg

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Happy birthday to Mavis as she turns 83 today! I have known of and admired this woman since the early 1970s and she continues an inspiration in my life. Here's to many more candles and cakes for a true American treasure!

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Mavis performed this week at the grand opening of the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa: https://t.co/RUOJyuzgXN

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Yet another career honor richly deserved: Mavis among 2022 inductees to Memphis Music Hall of Fame: https://t.co/hPbFJ9OhSQ

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Exciting collaboration!

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The family’s back together on @mavisstaples & #LevonHelm’s ‘Carry Me Home’ — out May 20th on @antirecords. Recorded in 2011, this Midnight Ramble captures Mavis and her band with Levon and his band, together again 35 years after The Band’s final performance The Last Waltz.

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Mavis is on tour this year through a crowning July 23 Wrigley Field date alongside Chris Stapleton and The Highwomen. All the cities/dates: https://t.co/PavY6pnkPI

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Happy birthday to Mavis, who turned 82 on Saturday. Here's to many more cakes and candles for an enduring American treasure!

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"Summer of Soul," the documentary film about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival -- featuring Mavis -- is getting glowing reviews: https://t.co/XDuc7M8RUT

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Mavis performed "Who Told You That" at A2IM’s Libera Awards, the Grammys of independent music: https://t.co/1ucgF0CwOH

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Mavis' Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction speech and the music of The Staple Singers will be part of special events planned this month as the Hall marks Black Music Appreciation Month and Juneteenth: https://t.co/4wK8ccFfFQ

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Congrats on the latest honor heralding an epic career: Mavis will be presented the Icon Award by the American Association of Independent Music during its annual @a2im Indie Week conference this June 14-17.

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Condolences to Mavis on the passing of her older brother, Pervis, at age 85. Pops, two of his daughters and now his son are gone. Only Mavis carries on -- and may she for many more years to come! https://t.co/bD4jz8Dvhj

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Best of luck tonight at the 2021 Grammy Awards to Best American Roots Performance nominees Norah Jones and Mavis for "I'll Be Gone."

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Exciting, different kind of new project: Mavis and the singer Yola will kick off a new Spotify podcast, "Duet," debuting Thursday, and discuss songs that are meaningful to them. https://t.co/2lVahuJAuw

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Mavis received International Lifetime Achievement Award at this week's 2021 UK Americana Awards. Well deserved. She also appears in Questlove's 'Summer Of Soul' (about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival a.k.a. Black Woodstock), which just won 2 awards at Sundance Film Festival.

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Yet another honor in Mavis' long and lustrous career: The song "I'll Be Gone" by Norah Jones (with Mavis) has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best American Roots Performance. Congrats!

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Streaming on July 31. (Mavis just turned 81, not 80 but let's not quibble!) https://t.co/svL4QjbRr7

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Happy birthday to an American treasure and here's to many more! Mavis turns 81 today. May she be back on stage again soon sending out joy to the world. The world could use some of that.

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The diversity of music genres Mavis touches continues to amaze. Latest example: She guests along with Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age) on a track called "Pulling the Pin" from a forthcoming new album by hip hop duo Run the Jewels.

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Mavis and Jeff Tweedy have collaborated on a new charity single, "All In It Together," that seems to speak directly to the coronavirus challenge facing us all: https://t.co/Q6EbQdcQuT (Hope you all are well and staying safe).