Episode 347: Episode 347: Josh Joplin discusses The Staple Singers “Be What You Are”

Josh Joplin joins us to discuss "Be What You Are” from the Staple Singers (1973).  Plenty of other discussion including the new album from Josh called “Figure Drawing” and baptism, Quakers, the soul charts of 1974, Bill Withers, Stax Records, Gladys Knight, “I’ll Take You There” and a song that Ben thinks sounds like it, “You can’t wash the Bert out” and what happens when you have to do some of your own lyrical transcribing.  Check out Josh Joplin at: https://www.joshjoplin.com/Check out The Staple Singers at: https://staxrecords.com/artist/the-staple-singers/Billboard Soul Singles from April 1973:  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42h63MT0gkNDxUUhzBUCi9?si=73459ed98f0b4c1eCheck out other episodes at RecordsRevisitedPodcast.com or one all your favorite podcast providers like Apple Podcasts, Castbox, iHeartMedia, and Spotify. Additional content is found at: Facebook.com/recordsrevisitedpodcast or twitter @podcastrecords or IG at instagram.com/recordsrevisitedpodcast/ or join our Patreon at patreon.com/RecordsRevisitedPodcast