Staples Jr. Singers When Do We Get Paid

Description

When the Staples Jr. Singers, the little-known family band from Aberdeen, Mississippi originally released their first and only full-length album, 1975s When Do We Get Paid (Luaka Bop, 2022), they made a handful of copies themselves, which they sold at talent shows and to their neighbors on their front lawn. One of the most striking features of this record was the coverprayers hands set against a gleaming, divine gold. We never saw a real album in the flesh when we made our version, and when we got the scans of the cover, the gold had washed out to white. So now, for the first time since its original release When Do We Get Paid will once more have a gold cover. Who are the Staples Jr. Singers, and why do they share a name with that other gospel group you might have heard of, the ones who famously crossed over? The musical family behind the Jr. Singers, the Browns, were a part of a vanguard of gospel soul artists in the 1970s who broke from tradition to testify with the groove. Excited audiences would flock to them after shows, telling them, Yall sound like the Staple Singers, yall should call yourselves the little Staple Jr. Singers! And so they did. When they wrote these songs all of them stone cold soul they were teenagers, and they had one question on their minds: When Do We Get Paid? You dont have to take our word for how great this record is. Take the Guardians instead, which calls it powerful. Or the Times (), which calls it full of feeling, or Popmatters (9/10) which says its a recording of fragile beauty and turbulent groove. Amen.1. Get On Board 2. I Know You’re Going to Miss Me 3. I’m Looking For A Man 4. I’m Going To A City 5. Somebody Save Me 6. Trouble of the World 7. Waiting For The Trumpet To Sound 8. I Feel Good 9. When Do We Get Paid 10. On My Journey Home 11. Too Close 12. Send It On Down 13. I Got a New Home

• Format: Vinyl
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item’s shipment.**
• Format Detail: LP Gold Cover Edition
• Genre: Christian & Gospel
• Internal ID: JITRE
• Released: 8/4/23