She was just moaning at first, and then she was moaning in tune and then she started following chord changes and pretty soon she was humming “His Eye On The Sparrow” with. That stroke left her unable to speak, but she still sang. “She was blaming Trump for the whole thing.” Roth is quick to add that this was nothing more than a bit of light-hearted banter, though, and that Jones remained in good spirits surrounded by family, friends, and fellow musicians until suffering another stroke Wednesday.
“She told the people that were that Trump gave her the stroke,” Roth says. the Dap-Kings’ Gabriel Roth tells The LA Times, Jones suffered the first of the two strokes that would hasten her death while sitting at home watching the election results at November 8. Fuck cancer.Īnother adds, “While I was saddened to hear of her passing, it’s nice to know she died after having the best year of her professional life.” And it appears she kept her sense of humor till the end: Like Candye Kane, she fought it right up to the end and going out the way she wanted to go. I caught wind of her death while catching up with the weekend postings of the Atlantic reader group known as TAD. But it comes to us bittersweet Sharon Jones died Friday night of pancreatic cancer at the age of 60.
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