The Staves
Initially comprising three sisters—Emily, Jessica, and Milly Staveley-Taylor
—the Staves rode the wave of nu-folk in the wake of the likes of Laura Marling
and Mumford & Sons. Their beguiling songs and persuasive harmonies even inspired
the press to invent a new genre, "goth folk", to describe the style of their
debut album Dead & Born & Grown as it climbed the charts in 2012. The daughters
of a teacher and a businessman, they grew up listening to their parents'
collection of American folk records and were particularly influenced by Bob
Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Th...
