Gospel trailblazers the Staples Jr Singers: We were singing about all the hardship and hurt'
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In 1975, a group of teenage siblings in Aberdeen, Mississippi, recorded an album of gospel songs focused on toil, conflict, succour and redemption.They named themselves the Staples Jr Singers in tribute to Mavis and co, their Mississippi forebears, because a lot of Staples songs had a meaning to them, says Annie Caldwell (then Annie Brown).
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