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"Nothing records the passage of time quite like the human voice. When R.C. now sings of the road getting rough and the going getting tough, I imagine the words delivered with the bruising gravity of experience. I hear in them not the purpose and naivety of youth but the reflections and insights of age."
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Archive photo of Staples Jr. Singers around 1975. From left to right: R.C. Brown, Corl Walker, † Cleveland Brown (top row); Annie Brown Caldwell, † Deacon Wordell Andrew, Edward Brown (middle row); † Ronnel Brown (front row). [Photo courtesy of Staples Jr. Singers / Luaka Bop]
"Aside from the roughly €700 that collectors are willing to pay for an original copy of the 'When Do We Get Paid' LP, you can mainly hear 100% vintage gospel and soul. We hear echoes of Sharon Jones (if it were possible, time-machine-wise) and of ultimate funk band The Meters."