Feb 11, 2015
Don't Lose This, is a posthumous release of music by Roebuck "Pops" Staples, the guitarist, songwriter and preacher who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as patriarch of the Staples Family Singers. Pops died in 2000, while the album was still in production, and fifteen years later his daughter Mavis Staples took the tapes to producer Jeff Tweedy, who helped her finish the soulful guitar, vocals and percussion all over Somebody Was Watching. Don't Lose This, has been given a release date of February 18th via dBPM Records and Anti. Listen to the firsts offering off the album, Somebody Was Watching, below: