Kevin Bronson on November 18th, 2017

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Sharon Jones died one year ago today at age 60 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings’ new album “Soul of a Woman” came out Friday, a record made at the Daptomes Records’ House of Soul studio in Brooklyn, most of it as she fought the disease. But there is scant hint that the album might be a swan song — the Grammy-nominated singer sounds as gritty and powerful as ever throughout, whether on the slow-burning “Pass Me By” or the rip-roaring “Sail On!”

The album closer is “Call on God,” a song Jones wrote long before her late-blooming career took off. It was penned in the late 1970s for E.L. Fields’ Gospel Wonders, a choir she sang with throughout most of her life at New York’s Universal Church of God, and it was originally recorded during the sessions for 2007 for the band’s third album “100 Days, 100 Nights.” It was set aside for a future album of gospel tracks that was never finished.

||| Watch: The videos for “Call on God” and “Matter of Time”

||| Also: Stream the whole album via Spotify