With her new release, "Back to My Roots," Candi Staton fuses gospel, blues, soul, and country together, looking back at the songs that are a part of her foundation and looking forward with a half dozen new compositions from her own pen.

In this candid and revealing conversation, we discuss her memories of the gospel highway in the 1950s, the stigmas on transitioning from gospel to secular, her return to gospel in the 1980s, her experience on Christian television, the subsequent stigma of divorce within Christian culture and her return to mainstream music in the late 90s.

Read more about her new release at godsmusicismylife.com.