“Music to me is a priesthood,” Sinead O'Connor told Rolling Stone in a 2013 Q&A. Read it here.
has always loved her God – it’s the rules imposed by organized religion she doesn’t accept. In her only U.S. appearances this summer, the world-class singer and provocateur returns this Friday and Saturday to New York’s Lincoln Center, where she blew away the audience at last year’swith her enraptured versions of the late soul great’s songs “Jesus” and “Billy Jack.
Right. Then let’s talk about new news. I saw the Curtis Mayfield tribute last year, which was amazing. Was that your connection with Lincoln Center, how this came about? Yeah. After that show, the Lincoln Center approached me and asked would I consider this forthcoming show. And a couple of guys approached me to ask whether I’d consider a gospel album, also. I think it was because I had done the version of “Jesus,” the Curtis Mayfield song. Chris Goldsmith is the producer – he’s the guy putting it all together. I’m thrilled, personally, because there’s a couple singers from my favorite gospel band, which is the Soul Stirrers. I’m very happy about that.
Well, I was born in a country that was very religious, with terrible religious music – awful, awful. It was actually Bryan Adams who gave me a CD of the Soul Stirrers. Someone had given it to him and he didn’t like it, and he said, “Oh, you’ll probably like it. You’re religious.” Long time ago – actually, not that long ago, probably about 10 years ago. It had the Soul Stirrers with
, but particularly there was a singer called R.H. Harris. He’s my favorite, and he’s a lot on that album.
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