This album comes as a sad-yet-welcome surprise. Sharon Jones died in November 2016 after a recurrence of pancreatic cancer—although she joked that her stroke a week before passing was a result of Donald Trump’s election. She and the oh-so-excellent Dap-Kings managed to record Soul Of A Woman earlier in the year, in fits and starts … Continue reading Essential New Music: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings’ “Soul Of A Woman”