Come Go with Me: The Stax Collection

In the 1930s, a Mississippi share-cropper named Roebuck “Pops” Staples moved to Chicago for work, taking his wife, daughter, and son—Oceola, Cleotha, and Pervis—with him, along with his blues-influenced guitar and easygoing, twangy voice. He and Oceola had two more daughters there, Yvonne and Mavis. After an unsatisfying stint with a local gospel group, he pressed his children into the service of the Lord, and the family began singing around Chicago and northern Indiana. They made their first recording at home and then cut several sides for United Records and Vee-Jay, including their breakthrough, “Uncloudy Day,” in 1956. They signed …