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MAVIS STAPLES – is truly all those words of high praise that are so often thrown about too lightly: she is unique, a legend, a civil rights pioneer, a national treasure, a singer who says more with what she leaves out than others can put across with an entire aria. And she’s turning 85, and still touring.