'It's all gone haywire': Mavis Staples on her 'angry' new album

At 78 years old, Mavis Staples has lived through - and sung about - as much American turmoil as any working artist.

In the 1960s she provided a crucial voice in the fight for civil rights as a member of the Staple Singers, the Chicago-based family band founded by her father, the late Roebuck Staples, who was known as Pops. The group frequently traveled and performed with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.; its 1965 album "Freedom Highway," recorded live just weeks after the historic Selma march, still evokes the raw emotion of that time.

So when Mavis Staples says she's uniquely troubled by the current climate in this country - by the guns and