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Songs We Love: Orgone, 'I Sold My Heart To The Junkman (Feat. Cyril Neville)'

A Los Angeles funk band and a New Orleans icon transform a jazz ballad turned girl-group number into an irresistibly boogieable groove — on a soul label out of suburban Ohio. Yeah, sure.
Orgone's new single, <em>I Sold My Heart To The Junkman, </em>comes out April 21.

There's nothing like a well-executed cover song to draw wallflowers onto the dance floor — just ask your local bar band. When the power of a fresh, confident re-arrangement fuses with that joyous spark of recognition, it. As founding guitarist Sergio Rios has explained of his band's , "Sometimes it takes a nudge to let go and get on the dance floor. And sometimes it takes a big ol' push ... a love shove, if you will."

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