Date: 2002
Release: Daptone #1
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Summertime is almost fully upon us, and it’s time to find some loud, sweaty music for all the barbecues and beach days the season brings. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I give you Miss Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings!
Ok, so I arrived late to the Dap Dippin’ party. Released in 2002, I didn’t check out Sharon Jones until she was recommended to us by a hip couple on vacation in Palm Springs this past Christmas. Always skeptical of music recommendations from strangers (no matter how hip), I casually previewed Jones on iTunes for all of two minutes before I succumbed and bought the whole damn thing on Amazon. Maybe it was James Brown’s passing, but Jones and her Kings filled a void. With a voice somewhere between Bettye LaVette and Ann Peebles, and the brassy funk-soul rhythms of the four Dap-Kings (now famous for backing Amy Winehouse), Jones channels the past in her songs of love, loss, and righteous soul power on an album that could be a lost volume of Funky People.
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