Friday Night Jazz Soul: Sharon Jones
It seems that the ongoing retro throwback trend in music is continuing unabated.
We've noted quite a few of these retro modern performers: Bettye LaVette, Amy Winehouse, James Hunter, Corinne Bailey Rae and Bitter:Sweet.
The latest fun music is Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings: 100 Days, 100 Nights. (Amazon is also offering a free MP3 of the title track of the album, no strings attached).
Called the “Queen of Funk,” any fan of 1960s and 70s R&B, Soul, or Motown will find plenty to love about this disc: Sharon Jone's is in turns, upbeat, smoky, slinky and soulful.
This is Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings' 3rd album. Hardcore fans may recognize the Dap-Kings as the backing band for Amy Winehouse - both on the recording and on tour.
More info:
• MySpace page (4 streaming songs)
Video 100 Days, 100 Nights:
(if no video appears here, than try IE or Safari -- or got to YouTube directly.
Firefox has been glitchy with YouTube videos lately)
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How about the real thing, Barry?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r1M5eEJeT38
Posted by: John Navin | Nov 16, 2007 5:38:49 PM
Done
Posted by: Barry Ritholtz | Nov 16, 2007 5:59:10 PM
Detroit Cobras: better revival band than those just mentioned, imho. And speaking of Zep the other day, how about The Black Keys! Very fun stuff.
Posted by: John Thompson | Nov 16, 2007 6:39:06 PM
Crush Da Bears,
Ebay is your friend :-)
They appear to have several hundred on sale for within 10% of retail.
http://tinyurl.com/3yx4rm
Posted by: Ant | Nov 16, 2007 8:53:33 PM
Weird. Could have sworn I was replying to an upthread post.
My apologies if I was participating in an unintended threadjack, Barry...
The Dap-Kings track smokes, btw - thanks for the link.
Posted by: Ant | Nov 16, 2007 9:00:23 PM
Sharon Jones' concert in Toronto earlier this week was completely sold out! I'm glad she is finally rubbing off some of Amy Winehouse's fame.
Posted by: Donny Hathaway | Nov 17, 2007 12:35:42 AM
She does all of the things, she has all the accoutrements, all the everything (and the song itself is _incredible_), but she leaves me a bit cold in places. Kind of like microwave soul impersonating cookin' with gas.
Posted by: David Yaseen | Nov 17, 2007 12:42:16 AM
Amazon morons make me clicky-clicky all the way to choose a credit card to charge $0.00 for the download. Sheeesh.
Posted by: kvenlander | Nov 17, 2007 2:03:40 AM
Yeah, thats kinda weird -- but thats whatcha get fer free . . .
Posted by: Barry Ritholtz | Nov 17, 2007 5:59:07 AM
I was wondering when you were going to get around to spotlighting this album. She played the Apollo last month- couldn't get tickets to that show either
Posted by: sarge | Nov 17, 2007 10:15:07 AM
