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By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cancer became the inescapable loss lurking in the background of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' latest album, "Give the People What They Want," the sixth release from the indie soul group credited with reviving the genre a dozen years ago. Jones, the 57-year-old singer who rose to prominence after a career as a backup singer and a stint working as a guard at New York City's Rikers Island jail, lost her mother to cancer while writing material for the album, and the brother of saxophonist Neal Sugarman succumbed to the disease too. Jones herself was diagnosed with bile duct cancer, which pushed the album's release from last August back to this week, and underwent her final chemotherapy treatment on December 31. The singer, who has been praised along with her band by Rolling Stone magazine as "extending and preserving tradition," spoke with Reuters about soul music, cancer, getting her due.
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Sharon Jones passed away in 2016, but new music continues to emerge from the Dap-Kings bandleader. A posthumous album, Soul Of A Woman, was released in 2017, and a few years back we got to hear a previously unreleased Dusty Springfield cover.
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Daptones Records is releasing a new Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings album called Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Rendition Was In at the end of the month, which collects a bunch of covers that Jones and her band did before she passed away in 2016. A couple weeks ago, we…
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Sharon Jones, The Roots and CeeLo Green also performed at New York's Carnegie Hall
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No matter his level of recognition, David Byrne is forever a guy about town. I’ve brushed past him in the East Village, seen him ride a bike by the Williamsburg Bridge, and the night before flying to Austin for SXSW, I ended up eating dinner next to him at an unassuming Caribbean restaurant. It’s fitting, […]
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Tedeschi Trucks Band have announced the initial leg for their 'Wheels of Soul' tour that will be taking place this summer and will also feature Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, as well as Doyle Bramhall II
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