Southern soul pioneer Candi Staton will be releasing her 30th album, Unstoppable, on August 24th. The album, which follows the 2016 gospel-dance collection It’s Time to Be Free, returns Staton to her ...

“I Ain’t Easy To Love” is the lead track off legendary singer Candi Staton’s latest album, Life Happens. The song, which features soulful guest vocals from Jason Isbell and John Paul White of the ...

I'm Just A Prisoner (Of Your Good Lovin'); Evidence; I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than A Young Man's Fool); The Best Thing You Ever Had; Someone You Use; That's How Strong My Love Is; ...

At February's Alabama Music Hall of Fame induction banquet, inductee Candi Staton sang I Ain't Easy to Love with the Civil Wars' John Paul White. The performance, which premieres at USA TODAY, shows ...

With four Grammy nominations and four other Hall of Fame inductions already under her belt, Candi Staton seems to be a shoo-in for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Known as the most ...

In an upstairs lounge at Hackney Picturehouse, Candi Staton is reflecting on the documentary that has just premiered on screen one. The American singer, a vivacious and very much active octogenarian, ...

Candi Staton has lived a lot of musical lives. She's been a child gospel singer, a '70s Southern soul hit-maker and then a disco queen. Six decades since she toured the gospel circuit with the Jewell ...

In October 2017, Candi Staton was at a Nashville recording studio, working on a new song called “The Prize Is Not Worth the Pain.” As her band stretched out the disco-funk tune into an extended jam, ...

Candi Staton has earned the title of her latest album, Unstoppable, many times over. Candi grew up poor in Hanceville, Ala. In the 1950s as a teen, she used her remarkable voice to tour across the ...

American roots musician Jason Isbell, on his live recording Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Live in Alabama (Lightning Rod Records), performed a potent cover of Candi Staton's “Heart on a String," ...

If anyone has earned the right to use the title "soul survivor," it's Candi Staton. The Southern singer, a staple on early '70s R&B playlists, was driven into seclusion by a combination of domestic ...