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Faith Hill revisited the Mississippi gospel-music roots of her youth with a powerful performance of “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” during Friday’s funeral service for R&B legend Aretha Franklin at Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple. Franklin died August 16th after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 76. The …

Mavis Staples, If All I Was Was BlackThe gospel legend’s latest collaboration with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy is “an object lesson in collaborative activism, with Staples tilting away from Sixties R&B formalism but doubling down on topicality,” writes Will Hermes. Read Our Feature: Inside Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy’s New Trump-Era …