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," ...

I listen to hundreds of new albums in a year, and when you do that, it’s really easy to fall into a critical lockstep and to start feeling like you’ve heard everything worthwhile there is to hear. So ...

Coronation Street actress Kym Marsh is set to make a return to the music scene in a collaboration with Candi Staton. Details about the duet are being kept under wraps but the pair are due to debut the ...

MEMPHIS - When the Stax Music Academy students take to the stage on December 5, 2009, at Germantown Performing Arts Center in Memphis to salute some of the most popular female singers in American ...

Candi Staton has hit out at Wagner Carrilho's cover of her track 'You Got The Love'. The soul singer told X magazine that she "didn't like" Carrilho's take on the song, which he performed at the ...

For this year’s annual Women Shaping the Future issue, we asked 12 of today’s top musical acts to talk about the women who have inspired them most in their lives and careers. Here, Angel Olsen shares ...

FLORENCE -- Muscle Shoals soul legend Candi Staton will be the headliner at the June 4 concert at the Shoals Theater sponsored by Oxford American magazine.

The singer recounts the story in 'Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution,' airing this June on PBS Candi Staton is telling the heartbreaking story behind her hit disco classic, "Young Hearts Run Free." In ...

(RNS) — Before she became known for R&B, soul and dance music, singer Candi Staton was a musician in an Alabama church. On a Sunday in the middle of September, 1963, she accompanied her church’s ...