News: Library Of Congress adds Staple Singers to the National Recording Registry

Joining around 300 other recordings deemed “essential” in the history of popular–and American–culture alongside the likes of Thomas Edison, Farnsworth, the crash of the Hindenburg, an episode of “The Lone Ranger” and more recently Tupac Shakur’s “Dear Mama” and Nirvana’s ubiquitous Nevermind, The Library of Congress selected the Staple Singers’ album from 1968 Soul Folk [...]

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