Meet Greg Kot

GREG KOT

        Friday, January 31

      6:30 pm at The Book Stall

Here's a great opportunity to meet ace Chicago Tribune popular music critic Greg Kot and hear him talk about his fascinating new book, I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom's Highway. It's the untold story of Mavis Staples, the Chicago-born living legend and lead singer of the Staple Singers and a major figure in the music that shaped the civil rights era. 

 

Want to get in the mood? Click here for a video of the Staple Singers performing "I'll Take You There" and "Respect Yourself" at their 1999 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Click here to read an excerpt from the book.