Uh huh, it’s gonna be that kind of party: Staple Stingers ’85 rundown of Talking Heads’ “Slippery People” — the club mix. While Pops is obviously the man here – his vocals leading the call and response – it’s Mavis, particularly her scat at 4:59 that will likely leave you reaching for the rewind. The Talking Heads connection would continue a couple of years later as Pops Staples would soon turn up in David Byrne’s True Stories doing an especially hoodoo rendition of “Papa Legba“.
Hot Damn! Those Staples just did it all. Pops’ voice is so bad ass. His “how do you know” is almost better than his “slow down ms. moses”.
1 | CWLovell June 26th, 2012 at 9:42 amPOPS Style
2 | jack June 26th, 2012 at 12:26 pmI had never heard this until a few weeks ago, it was pumping in a Chipotle where I was grabbing dinner. I Shazam’d it and have been on the hunt to find an original 12″.
3 | Shiv June 26th, 2012 at 12:34 pmthis is real nice.
4 | acetone June 26th, 2012 at 2:05 pmThis is great. Thank you.
5 | burning_plastic June 26th, 2012 at 9:42 pm[...] (The clip, by the way, comes thanks to the good graces of the indispensable Aquarium Drunkard.) [...]
6 | Midweek Music Break: The Staple Singers, “Slippery People (Club Mix)” June 27th, 2012 at 9:44 amHail to tha yeah!
7 | cyd July 11th, 2012 at 1:16 am