To welcome the Mavis Staples concert with the spirit of someone who will see it, rather than listen to a legend. The point of African-American music is to miss the mark completely. Of course she’s the 82-year-old woman who Bob Dylan dated one day and has done absolutely everything in the universe of gospel, rhythm and blues, soul and funk, one of the monumental Staple Singers and Absolute reference of American popular culture from the second half of the 20th century. But at the same time, Mavis Staples is still an artist to this day. direct sweep.
This was noticed by the Auditori audience, who stood up after 58 minutes of ecstasy: roaring applause as the last great lady of the golden age of the soul left the stage, as her extraordinary band, led by top guitarist Rick Holmstrom, finished the last bars of the stage. glorious ‘I’ll take you there’.
One concert (another) went to the date of the festival, where the Chicago singer, who preserved more than the traces of her extraordinary voice and showed tremendous generosity, fulfilled her promise to the public. doses of love, joy, inspiration and “positive feelings”. He did so with the help of a dozen classics from his repertoire, which included Funkadelic (“Can You Get It”) and Buffalo Springfield (“For What It’s Worth”), and with the brilliance and authority of a star. never goes out. Wonderful.