[youtube id=”ipynkBxtMOc”] Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings have one final studio album coming out next month. Soul Of A Woman is the name of the posthumous collection that’s being released one year and a day after her November 17th passing last year. “Matter Of Time” is from Soul Of AContinue Reading
Sharon Jones has two memorial services next week in Brooklyn and Georgia. The soul singer passed on November 18th after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. The first service is Wednesday, December 14th at Brown Memorial Baptist church in Brooklyn at 6:30PM. Jones was born in Augusta, Georgia and herContinue Reading
Sharon Jones, the lead singer for the Dap-Kings, passed today at age 60 after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Jones was unique for starting her career at a time when the music industry put artists in a graveyard for their age, and then later being recognized by that sameContinue Reading
[youtube id=”PVhNFNYnJRc”] Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings’s cover of Prince’s “Take Me With U” for Spin’s Purplish Rain tribute album to Prince. Purplish Rain was included with Spin’s July 2009 issue. Purplish Rain was created as an acknowledgment of Purple Rain’s 25th anniversary.  Spin had a 10-page oral history and talkedContinue Reading