Staples Jr. Singers - When Do We Get Paid (in Full) - Recorded at The Message Center, West Point MS
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“When Do We Get Paid (in Full),” is a twenty-minute version of the Staples Jr. Singers' 1975 classic “When Do We Get Paid.” Recorded in West Point, Mississippi, at a house of worship called The Message Center, it's more of a séance than a song—and it happened more or less spontaneously when the original members, Edward, R.C., and Annie, got together to play music in 2022 for the first time in more than forty years.
If this version sounds familiar, it might be because you were one of the lucky ones who heard it playing in the GRAY gallery (New York/Chicago) during their exhibition CITING BLACK GEOGRAPHIES, alongside the work of Carrie Mae Weems, Theaster Gates, and Amiri Baraka among many other luminaries...
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Film by Daniel Fox and Maura James McNamara
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