The new record is called Living On A High Note and it’s out on Anti Records now. Everyone in the band plays and sings all over it. M. Ward produced and it was recorded here in LA at Kingsize Recorders. It’s a fun, joyous record featuring songs by different young […]
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Yep, that’s right, we’ll be touring with Bob Dylan this summer. Check the Tour Dates section for more details. From the pacific northwest to the south, midwest and east coast…we’ll be in your town soon…hope to see ya! Photo courtesy ofRob Garland Photographers
Take Us Back live on Colbert…
Looks like we’ll be hitting more incredible locales in 2015. The Mavis Staples calendar is filling up fast and we try to squeeze RHB shows in whenever we can. Be sure to check the TOUR DATES page for the latest calendar. Look forward to seeing you!
The Chicago Tribune’s Greg Kot reviewed the Mavis 75 show from November, 2014…
https://artsfuse.org/99638/fuse-music-interview-mavis-man-guitarist-rick-holmstrom-on-backing-mavis-staples-with-taste-and-space/
After the busy fall 2013 tour, Mavis’ successful knee surgeries and the holidays, 2014 is starting to shape up. Lots of highlights, but the highest looks to be a couple of European tours and Mavis headlining this summer’s Newport Folk Festival around the time of her 75th birthday! If there’s […]
Willie G. Moseley wrote this story about Rick for the latest VG magazine. Also thanks to Aigars Lapsa for the photo from Cazorla, Spain that was taken when RHB played in a bullring at 3 am, under full moon, for a crowd of rabid Spaniards. No wonder the whole town […]
Not sure how this happened, but Cruel Sunrise is the # 1 CD on BB King’s Bluesville (Sirius/XM radio)! Thanks to Bill Wax for spinning the record so enthusiastically. And thanks Edward Spinelli for the photos.