A founding member of the Grammy-winning gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama has died.

The drummer who helped give some of James Brown's most indelible hits their signature snap, John "Jabo" Starks, has died at age 79. Starks' manager, Kathie Williams, confirmed that he died at his home in Mobile, Alabama, after battling leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes, according to The New York Times.

Alabama Shakes aren't a flashy band, so it won't come as a surprise that they went with a very understated approach to the video for the title track from their recently released album Sound & Color.

They released their second album of the same name earlier in April

Alabama Shakes has shared a video for “Sound & Color,” the title track from their new sophomore album, and apparently the first in a series of conceptual videos. A man wakes up from hibernation on a spaceship, and he’s all alone. He looks up at a foreign planet in the distance as flashes of his […]