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Daptone artist Sharon Jones sang 100 Days 100 Nights along with the Dap-Kings on The Late Late Show this past Friday night. Here’s the clip…Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights
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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
100 Days, 100 Nights
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AMG Review of 100 Days, 100 Nights
Marisa Brown
All Music GuideSharon Jones, the big-voiced lead singer of the Dap-Kings -- a band that recently began making its name known outside those enthusiasts of the Daptone label and the reaches of the soul community thanks to appearances with Amy Winehouse and work for Mark Ronson, including a version of Dylan's "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" -- is no music-world neophyte. 100 Days, 100 Nights is just her third full-length with the Dap-Kings, but Jones has been singing on and off since the 1970s, without much of a break until she began working with her current label. Meaning, she's certainly paid her dues, and she has enough life experience behind her voice to make the words she sings sound that much truer. Because soul music -- and this isn't neo-soul, or contemporary R&B, but straight-up Stax and Motown brassy soul -- is so much more than the actual lyrics themselves; it's about the inflection and emotion that the vocalist is able to exude, and Jones proves herself to be master of that, moving from coy to romantic to defiant easily and believably. The album is much smoother, even gentler, than her previous releases, and though the Dap-Kings still power their way through the ten songs with bright horn licks, inspired drumming, and staccato guitar lines, there's a deeper, bluesier edge to the record, heard in "Let Them Knock" or the slower "Humble Me." "Don't let me forget who I am," Jones croons in the latter, her voice rising to a sweet falsetto at the end of the phrase. It's a very clean record, not over-produced but well produced, with a lot of great pop moments tucked in between the brassier, funkier bits. The title track relies on a sultry organ and a minor vamp to make its point, while "Something's Changed" uses strings and punctuated sax and bass as the singer drops a bit of her lungs out, bringing a kind of immediacy to her words, as if the actuality of the situation around her hasn't quite set in enough for her to wail about it, as if she's just realizing it and listeners are right there to hear about it. But that's the magic and power of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: their ability to convey passion and pain, regret and celebration, found in the arrangements and the tail ends of notes, in the rhythms and phrasing, and it is exactly that which makes 100 Days, 100 Nights such an excellent release.
Video: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights [Live on Craig Ferguson]
New Video For Funky Friday: Sharon Jones & Dap-Kings - "Tell Me"
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It's Funky Friday and I have a funky tune from Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings! I can't believe I finally have something to report on the right day! This new video just came out, it was filmed in Bushwick, Brooklyn and directed by Adam Elias Buncher. Here is Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings with "Tell Me":Ah yeah! That's got my feet ready for some dancing! The song is off their 2007 release, 100 ...
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New Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Video "100 Days, 100 Nights"
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Daptone Records released the brand new video for "100 Days, 100 Nights" by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings this week. According to the video info:The video was directed by Adam Elias Buncher using two vintage TV cameras bought on E-Bay for $50 dollars each. Shows how much you can do with just a little soul!Here it is: "100 Days. 100 Nights":Daptone Records also has a special mix available on thei...
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Ms. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are shaking the sugar in the Blue Room.
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God damn I'm feeling the hot, muggy sounds of Sharon Jones right now, playing in the hot summer sun down at Bonnaroo in Manchester Tennessee. Check it out:http://www.attblueroom.com/music/bonnaroo-music-and-arts-festival/live-webcast.php
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Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings Saved My Saint Patrick's Day
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I don't mean to be negative, but when you aren't feeling good, you're pissed about something you have no control over, and it's a drinking holiday while you're at work—I believe it's understandable to reserve the right to be a grinch. And I was hating on all the green wearing fake irish with their crappy stick on tatoos and their pinching. That is until my friend Ashley, the music-fairy, introd.
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New Sharon Jones
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MmmmmmOK, my year is complete. Is there anything else coming out before 2008 that's worth waiting on?
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Funky Friday: 3 Months and Change with Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
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In the interest of keepin' it real simple since the weekend just began for me and to help everyone slide into the weekend in a groove, here's a fantabulous old school video for the title track off the new album from Ms. Sharon Jones and her lovely band, The Dap-Kings. Woot!Be seeing you!
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Video: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights [Live on Craig Ferguson]
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Daptone artist Sharon Jones sang 100 Days 100 Nights along with the Dap-Kings on The Late Late Show this past Friday night. Here’s the clip…Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights
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