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Mavis Staples chooses the Tracks of My Years

Mavis Staples chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from Al Green and The Staple Singers. There's the daily love song, record and album of the week plus PopMaster.

Mavis Staples, American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from Al Green and The Staple Singers. Mavis was born July 10, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois. She began singing with her family, The Staple Singers, at local Chicago churches before signing with the gospel label Vee-Jay Records in 1953. The family put on a concert in Montgomery, Alabama, which Martin Luther King Jr. was attending. The group later had a number of soul hits and a No. 1 pop song with "Let's Do It Again," from the film soundtrack of the same name. Mavis has also established a successful solo career while working with a range of artists, from Prince to Natalie Merchant. Her brand new album "If All I Was Was Black" was released last November via Anti-Records. It's her sixteenth studio album which was written and produced by Jeff Tweedy who features on the fourth track "Ain't No Doubt About It". Mavis has said about the album "it brings us all together as a people. That's what I hope to do. You can't stop me. You can't break me. I'm too loving. These songs are going to change the world."

Ken also has the daily love song, record and album of the week plus PopMaster. If you'd like to get in touch with the show email Ken.Bruce@bbc.co.uk.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Mon 15 Jan 2018 09:30
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Music Played

  • Coldplay

    Viva La Vida

    • Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Portugal. The Man

    Feel It Still

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Quincy Jones

    Ai No Corrida (feat. Dune)

    • Hits Of 1981 & 1982 (Various Artists.
    • Polydor.

  • Giorgio Moroder

    Deja Vu (feat. Sia)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • Black Box

    Ride On Time

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Liam Payne & Rita Ora

    For You (Fifty Shades Freed)

    • Fifty Shades Freed O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Island.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Rockaria!

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    International Blue

  • Adele

    Set Fire To The Rain

    • 21.
    • XL.
    • 5.

  • Foreigner

    Waiting For A Girl Like You

    • 40.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 16.

  • Record of the Week

    • Simple Minds

      Magic

  • The Human League

    Tell Me When

    • Now 30 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Queen

    Somebody To Love

    • A Day At The Races.
    • Island.
    • 6.

  • Midge Ure

    Breathe

    • Orchestrated.
    • BMG.

  • Wet Wet Wet

    Wishing I Was Lucky

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble

    This Is Me

    • The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Atlantic.
    • 7.

  • Jess Glynne

    Hold My Hand

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Robert Palmer

    Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You

    • Now 19 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Album of the Week

    • Camila Cabello

      Consequences

      • Camila.
      • Syco Music.

  • The Boomtown Rats

    I Don't Like Mondays

    • 25 Years Of Rock'NRoll: 1979 (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 15.

  • Tom Walker

    Leave A Light On

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Tracks of My Years

    • The Staple Singers

      Will the Circle Be Unbroken

      • Good News: 22 Gospel Greats.

    • Al Green

      Take Me to the River

      • Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
      • Global Television.

  • Rick Parfitt

    Without You

    • Over And Out.
    • earMUSIC.
    • 001.

  • Joe Jackson

    Steppin' Out

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Mon 15 Jan 2018 09:30
    麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 2