“What comes from the heart, reaches the heart.” - Mavis Staples

With the help of our friends and longtime sponsor, Mountain Valley Spring Water, we were able to dedicate a day’s worth of music to the legendary Mavis Staples this year at Luck Reunion. Mavis headlined our Sources Stage, closing out the night after a stacked lineup of powerhouse acts. Each artist on the Sources Stage played one of Mavis’s own solo songs or a Staples Singers classic during their own set in honor of the iconic singer’s upcoming 80th birthday. Arguably the culmination of the entire day came at the end of Mavis’s set when Courtney Marie Andrews, Yola, Mountain Man, Sunny War, Angie McMahon, Nicole Atkins, Jade Jackson, Haley Heynderickx, and Brandy Zdan joined Mavis on stage to sing “The Weight”, capping off the evening with a moment of community, admiration, and unbridled joy. Join us in discovering what some of these acts had to say about Mavis’s influence in their careers and her own advice for the next generation. Watch above for more.

As New York Fashion Week comes to a close and London starts its own, there are once again subtle mentions of the American Southwest’s influence being showcased. Luckily, those of us that love our fringe jackets we invested in after last year’s explosion of “cowboy fashion” or that we have gladly accepted as hand-me-downs from older generations, can still wear them with ease (not like we’d ever stop based on mainstream fashion’s rules). The new collections combine things that nod to the American Southwest of the past. Seen below is a mix of prairie skirts, reworked denim, embellished cowboy boots, fringed leather, Native American patterns, and moccasins. We’ve paired some of our own fashionable candid photos from Luck Reunion attendees earlier this year next to shots from the runway to show that Luck is always in style.