{"id":487063,"date":"2019-06-15T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=848601"},"modified":"2019-06-15T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T17:02:48","slug":"see-mavis-staples-showcase-we-get-by-songs-on-cbs-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-mavis-staples-showcase-we-get-by-songs-on-cbs-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"See Mavis Staples Showcase \u2018We Get By\u2019 Songs on \u2018CBS This Morning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-15-at-9.00.30-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>After releasing her album&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/mavis-staples-we-get-by-837690\/\"><em>We Get By<\/em><\/a> in May, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mavis-staples\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mavis-staples\" data-tag=\"mavis-staples\">Mavis Staples<\/a> dropped by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\" data-tag=\"cbs\">CBS<\/a> This Morning<\/em> on Saturday to perform two tracks from her latest LP.<\/p>\n<p>The soul and gospel legend played both \u201cChange\u201d and her 14th studio album\u2019s title track \u201cWe Get By\u201d for the morning show\u2019s \u201cSaturday Sessions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rT7reIYTf5Y?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Staples began her career as an artist in 1950, performing with her family group the Staple Singers before releasing her self-titled debut in 1969. In her career, she\u2019s won two Grammys and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999, as well as the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>While appearing on <em>CBS This Morning<\/em>, Staples also sat down with host Anthony Mason at New York\u2019s Apollo Theater to discuss her 80th birthday as he recounted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/mavis-staples-80th-birthday-concert-apollo-theater-833811\/\">the star-studded concert in May<\/a> where David Byrne, Maggie Rogers, Norah Jones, Jon Batiste and Jason Isbell performed alongside her.<\/p>\n<p>When Mason pointed out Staples was having not one, but three parties for her birthday, Staples responded: \u201cOne wouldn\u2019t have been enough. I\u2019ve been around a long time, so it really should be five. I\u2019ve gone from eight to 80. I started singing when I was eight years old, and I\u2019m still rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F2qTDCme_UA?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Staples also discussed her passion for boxing as a clip showed off her pink boxing gloves. I\u2019m 80 years old, but I\u2019m fire. On fire, Anthony.\u201d And she even revealed that she isn\u2019t thinking about leaving the stage anytime soon. \u201cI\u2019m not thinking about retiring, I\u2019m having too much fun. I live to sing,\u201d she told the host.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mavis-staples-we-get-by-songs-cbs-this-morning-848601\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After releasing her album&nbsp;We Get By in May, Mavis Staples dropped by CBS This Morning on Saturday to perform two tracks from her latest LP. The soul and gospel legend played both \u201cChange\u201d and her 14th studio album\u2019s title track \u201cWe Get By\u201d for the morning show\u2019s \u201cSaturday Sessions.\u201d [embedded content] Staples began her career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 06:11:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}