Mavis Staples was just eight years old when, one evening in 1948, her father, Roebuck "Pops" Staples, sat her and her siblings down on the floor of their South Side Chicago apartment, and taught them their first-ever song: the country-gospel traditional "Will the Circle Be Unbroken."
Seventy years
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