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Watch Mavis Staples & Jeff Tweedy Perform The Classic “Freedom Highway” On Colbert

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In 1965, the Staple Singers, already giants in the world of gospel, released Freedom Highway, an album explicitly inspired by the Civil Rights struggle. Pops Staples wrote the album’s title track, and his daughter and bandmate Mavis was in her mid-twenties when it came out. Mavis Staples is 85 years old now;

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Written by: Tom Breihan

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