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Never ending Mavis/RHB tour hits your town…

Hit the TOUR DATES button to see when Mavis Staples and/or RHB will be hitting your town. The success of “You Are Not Alone” has us busy at home with RHB shows and recording, as well as touring with Bonnie Raitt & Mavis Staples this summer. It’s gonna be a […]

Best Americana Album Grammy!

Being nominated alongside Willie Nelson, Los Lobos, Roseanne Cash and Robert Plant for the 2011 Best Americana Album Grammy was enough…but then we won! Amazing. Congratulations to everyone involved…Mavis, Yvonne, Jeff Tweedy, the whole gang at the Wilco Loft, Dave & Matt at 525, Rosebud, Anti Records, engineer Tom Schick, […]

Neko and Elvis sit in…

On March 27 Neko Case sat in with Mavis and the band at the end of a series of shows together. Neko’s achingly beautiful voice blended in perfectly. Here’s a photo… Photo by Doug Schneider. On April 23 Elvis Costello joined Mavis Staples and RHB for a rousing version of […]

“Secret Weapon” for Mavis revealed…

Greg Kot in the Chicago Tribune September 20, 2010 Secret weapon behind Mavis Staples’ new Jeff Tweedy-produced album Greg Kot The story that most fans know about Mavis Staples’ rousing new album, “You Are Not Alone” (Anti), is that the singer recorded it with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, who produced it […]

“You Are Not Alone” Grammy nomination…

Big news…Mavis Staples album “You Are Not Alone” (Anti) nominated for a Grammy! Nominated in the Best Americana Album category, alongside Roseann Cash, Los Lobos, Willie Nelson and Robert Plant, this is Mavis’ (and RHB’s) second straight Grammy nomination (Live: Hope at the Hideout was nominated last year). Right on […]

More Mavis kudos, Europe, RHB shows…

In addition to the Grammy nomination for Mavis Staples’ “You Are Not Alone,” the album (featuring RHB) was also selected on both MOJO Magazine and NPR’s year end best of 2010 Top 50 lists. Yeah! Still recuperating after a two week European tour that hit Lucerne Switzerland, Amsterdam, London, Stockholm […]

Killer NPR review…

NPR’s Bob Bolien wrote a stellar review of the new Mavis Staples CD You Are Not Alone for npr.org. Here’s a snippet: “…the band is crucial, discerning and supportive. Rick Holmstrom is her soulful guitarist — Staples called him ‘Pops Jr.’ when they performed a Tiny Desk Concert this summer…” […]

New Mavis…go get it!

Mavis Staples’ new disc comes out September 14, 2010. Produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, “You Are Not Alone” and was recorded last winter in Chicago at Wilco’s The Loft studio and features the “smoking hot” (Tweedy quote in L.A. Times) RHB on every track. Here’s a little taste of the […]