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"Miss Mavis" began contributing to the American musical canon as a mere teenager in Chicago when she first appeared as the lead singer with her family's Staple Singers. Her guitar-playing father, Roebuck "Pops" Staples, took Mavis and her sisters on the road following her 1959 graduation from high school. By the mid-60's Pops' close relationship with Dr. Martin Luther King, as well as covers of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna' Fall" and Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" positioned the Staples as important gospel voices for Civil Rights. Mavis is ready to once again command attention when her latest album, "You Are Not Alone" (produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy at his band's Chicago studio, The Loft) is released on Tuesday. (Release date: 9-14-2010)