Roebuck "Pops" Staples
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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
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Black Boy
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Intro by Pops Staples - Live
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Whicha Way Did It Go
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I Shall Not Be Moved
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Somebody Was Watching
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Down in Mississippi
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World in Motion
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No News Is Good News
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The Lady's Letter
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Friendship
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Sweet Home
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Love Is a Precious Thing
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Gotta Serve Somebody
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken
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Love On My Side
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Nobody's Fault But Mine
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Intro by Pops Staples (Live)
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Miss Cocaine
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(Peace To) The Neighborhood
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America
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This May Be the Last Time
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Intro by Pops Staples
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Better Home
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Pray
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John Henry
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Pray on My Child
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Tryin' Time
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Too Close
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Hope in a Hopeless World
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Simple Man
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People Get Ready
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Why Am I Treated So Bad
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Interviewed by Chris Strachwitz, ca. 1964
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Why (Am I Treated So Bad)
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Waiting for My Child
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Jesus Is Going to Make up (My Dying Bed)
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Trying Times
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Father, Father
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Too Big For Your Britches
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The Downward Road
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You Got To Serve Somebody
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Getting Too Big for Your Britches
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Father Father
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Glory Glory
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Interviewed By Chris Strachwitz
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Downward Road
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Interviewed by Chris Strachwitz (ca. 1964)
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Glory, Glory
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Freedom Highway
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Whicha Way Did It Go?
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