WHEN DO WE GET PAID by THE STAPLES JR. SINGERS

SKU123179
ArtistTHE STAPLES JR. SINGERS
TitleWHEN DO WE GET PAID
LabelLUAKA BOP
Catalog #LB 0099LP
Tag
ReleaseW 21 - 2022
FormatVinyl - EULP
EAN Barcode680899009911
Import
 € 26,99 incl. VAT, excl. shipping

Tracks

  1. Get On Board
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-01-01.mp3
  2. I Know You're Going To Miss Me
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-01-02.mp3
  3. I'm Looking For A Man
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-01-03.mp3
  4. I'm Going To A City
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-01-04.mp3
  5. Somebody Save Me
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-01-05.mp3
  6. Trouble Of The World
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-01-06.mp3
  7. Waiting For The Trumpet To Sound
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-01-07.mp3
  8. I Feel Good
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-02-01.mp3
  9. When Do We Get Paid
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-02-02.mp3
  10. On My Journey Home
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-02-03.mp3
  11. Too Close
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-02-04.mp3
  12. Send It On Down
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-02-05.mp3
  13. I Got A New Home
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/l/lb_0099lp_when_do_we_get_paid/sf868055-01-02-06.mp3

Description

This project is a continuation of the critically acclaimed compilation World Spirituality Classics 2: The Time for Peace Is Now: Gospel Music About Us , which features “We’ve Got a Race to Run” by the Staples Jr. Singers.

The Staples Jr. Singers were part of a vanguard of soul gospel artists in the 1970s that broke from tradition to testify with the groove. They found their inspiration in the secular music they heard on the radio, and wrote songs that were nothing but stone cold soul.

Like many gospel groups at the time, they were a family band: The Browns from Aberdeen, Mississippi. Annie was 11, A.R.C was 12, and Edward was 13 when they got their start, building a reputation by playing school talent shows and front yards in tow.

“We were so strange and we were so young,” says Edward Brown, “and a lot of people didn’t understand that.”

Every weekend, they would pile into their family van and travel across the Bible Belt, performing sometimes as many as three shows in a single day. Back then, the South was desegregated on paper but not always in practice, and the Staples Jr. Singers weren’t always sure what kind of welcome they would receive—whether a new audience would embrace them, whether local restaurants would serve them.

Forty years, three generations, and countless performances later, the original members of the Staples Jr. Singers are still on the circuit, performing almost every weekend at local churches as the Brown Singers and the Caldwell Singers. While they’ve written an entire catalog of gospel music since 1975’s When Do We Get Paid, for the Staples Jr. Singers, the incantatory funk of this music still holds the power to help make a way out of dark and troubled times.

“I can be a witness,” Annie says, “Back then you could feel it. You were basing it on yourself. These are the songs that are really going to take us over.”

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