The Staple Singers’ ‘Come Go With Me: The Stax Collection’ brings the gospel-soul band’s peak years into focus. Read our review
These albums are full of originals that should have been hits and alternative sonic paths one wishes the band had explored more fully, whether on’ disco-house barnburner “Trippin’ On Your Love” or the orchestral pop ditty “Little Boy.
For more dedicated fans, there’s a full disc of singles, rarities, and live performances, though nothing at all that hasn’t been released before. The highlight? Pops Staples’ Wattstax performance of the group’s overlooked tour-de-force “I Like The Things About You,” complete with an extended spoken word monologue from Pops addressed to the massive young black crowd.
But today, “I Like The Things About You” also serves as a complicated reminder of the way in which the band continually struggled to channel its civil rights politics into the mainstream. They never toned down their socially conscious storytelling, but songs like “I’ll Take You There” made implicit what was once explicit racial justice sloganeering.
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