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Roebuck "Pops" Staples

soulrhythm and bluesbluesgospelUSA
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About Roebuck "Pops" Staples

Roebuck "Pops" Staples (Dec. 28, 1914 – Dec. 19, 2000), was the patriarch of the Staples family (aka The Staples Singers): daughters Mavis, Yvonne, and Cleotha and son Pervis. Roebuck sang and played a highly distinctive style of guitar, mixing acoustic, bluesy techniques (fingerpicking, bending notes in the manner of Mississippi Delta blues guitarists such as Charley Patton, Son House, and Garfield Akers) with amplified effects (principally tremolo

Top Tracks

1

Black Boy

1.8K plays
2

Intro by Pops Staples - Live

246 plays
3

Whicha Way Did It Go

460 plays
4

I Shall Not Be Moved

270 plays
5

Somebody Was Watching

271 plays
6

Down in Mississippi

126 plays
7

World in Motion

101 plays
8

No News Is Good News

71 plays
9

The Lady's Letter

70 plays
10

Friendship

73 plays

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