YOU LOVE IT: sharon jones & the dap kings - "naturally"

http://www.daptonerecords.com/pages/home.html

That phrase is audacious in its complete wrongness. Congrats.

The Solomon Burke doesn't compare well to the last one. It has moments, such as the version of "It Makes No Difference", but Don Was tends to ruin records for me as a producer, and some of the song interpretations just don't work (a too-popcorn-y version of Dylan's "What Good Am I", for example). Ray Parker Jr. burns on guitar, though. I think the difference besides the production is the last disc had lots of new tunes written for him; this is a strange mixture.

JaXOn - I don't know too much about Baby Huey, but this is The Living Legend, which I understand to be his only album. Reiussed in disc last December. For me, the first track dwarfs the rest.

i think talking about Solomon Burke is really appropriate on this thread because i think that's the sound she's pulling on this album.

http://soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=crates

cheer up harvey!

-- Mr. Harvey Weinstein (h...), March 18th, 2005.

?????????????!!!

Have you not seen the 786, 349 other threads devoted to soul, funk, and R&B here? There's no lack of love for The Good Groove 'round these parts, and to suggest that Sharon Jones and Co. are a token funk fave is nothing short of ludicrous.

what specifically bothers you about the reverence, chuck?

(xpost cuz yer totally drunk)

I'm pretty sure I did read that a member of Brooklyn afrobeat band Antibalas is also a member of the Dap-Kings. Antibalas play indie-rock clubs and get more attention from some indie-rockers than actual African-based groups.

Chuck: isn't it kind of blindingly obvious that "Taxes" was supposed to be dumb, or at least duh-inducing? It's a complete homage to the J.B.'s "I'm Paying Taxes, What Am I Buying?"

antibalas and the dap-kings (and the dap-tones label peeps) are most definitely all part of one big happy family.

i think this is why i listened to it in the store, but didn't actually buy it

actually, the two times i saw antibalas (which were, admittedly, at least two or three years ago), their audience struck me as way more "hippie" (= jam band) than "indie," per se. (supposedly, like ozomotli, they were highly connected with pre-election demonstrations last year; good for them, obviously.) antibalas and sharon jones have both recorded for dap tone, which takes its soul-revival shtick to the hilt: their website even lists 7-inch 45s on a page that looks like a jukebox, and they have some very lovely old-style album covers of their vinyl albums. all of which looks extremely inticing. i have yet to hear a single record on the label that i care about, though. And again, I'm sorry, but *Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap-kings* is one of the most corny-assed titles I've heard in years. The whole thing hits me as some kind of exercise in kitsch, though maybe it shouldn't (and maybe it wouldn't, if the music was much better.)

for some reason, the one thing that struck me immediately about the record and the label was how much dap-tone records reminded me of play-tone records, the label in "that thing you do." which was pretty fantastic kitsch if you ask me.

have you heard the Daktaris? another Fela "cover band". somehow they're connected to the whole daptones crew

same basic people, in fact.

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,848032,00.html

-- Tantrum (tantrumtheca...) (webmail), March 18th, 2005 7:47 AM. (Tantrum The Cat) (link)

NYC 5/22: FREE outdoor show: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, White Magic, Aa, Measles Mumps Rubella, Blood On The Wall

-- Mr. Harvey Weinstein (h...), March 18th, 2005.

I'll be in the bathroom, washing the egg off my face.

I wrote something on Sharon Jones recently (a piece that owes DW's a hefty debt): http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1263/article12972.asp

Here is Douglas Wolk's review of the album:

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0513,wolk,62487,22.html

Didn't really like the latest Solomon Burke--I'm a fan of his Atlantic stuff and even of his soundtrack for "Cool Breeze" on which he does a version of the William Tell Overture...but he doesn't sing well, that Band tune he does is not such a great song ("stampeding cattle, they rattle the walls" sounds like a line from a bad parody Pavement tune), and while I'm a fan of Ray Parker Jr., why have Ray Parker play guitar, as good as he is, when you have Reggie Young? So I'm a purist. I think Howard Tate's last album was better than Burke's or even Al Green's last two, actually, as an updating of that sound.

Top 25 Southern Soul Chart
http://www.soulandbluesreport.com/Top25Chart.html

The Nation's Official Southern Soul Chart

August 12, 2005

1
1
Baby I've Changed
Floyd Taylor
Malaco

3
2
If You Wanna Get It
Big Cynthia / Mr David
Tony Mercedes

2
3
Ten Toes Up J Diamond Washington
2 Brothers

7
4
Stroke It Easy Tazz Mardi Gras

4
5
Cheating & Lying T. K. Soul Soulful

5
6
Can't Nobody Do me Lenny Wms
Universal

6
7
Southern Soul Elec. Slide Team Airplay Allstars
Team Airplay

8
8
Better When You Steal It
Mr. David
Tony Mercedes

10
9
Somebody's Gonna Lose J Floyd / Wm Bell Wilbe

12
10
Stage In The Sky O. B. Buchana Ecko

13
11
Ease On Down Lee Shot Wms
Ecko

9
12
I'll Be Good To You Donnie Ray Ecko

11
13
Grown Folks Muzic Problem Solvas
Over 35 Sounds

17
14
The Blacker The Berry Chairmen OTB Surfside

18
15
Dance Like You're Naked Lee Fields BDA

14
16
Why Me Reggie P Allison

16
17
Scared Of Getting Caught Luther Lackey Good Time
19
18
I Came To Party
Sergio Davis Lyric

20
19
If Ever You Get Lonely
Willie Clayton Endzone

21
20
Sit Down On It Willis Pugh Hep Me
15
21
I Can't Stop Drinking O. B. Buchana Ecko
22
22
Cheatin John Marvin Sease
Malaco

23
23
I'm Missing You Babe
LeBrado Ifgam
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24
Let Me Put The Head In It Theodis Ealey Ifgam
24
25
Its You
Troy Johnson SA

The Top 25 is calculated on a percentage formula based on stats from our reporting panel Of Radio Stations, Clubs/Record Pools & Retail Stores /Distributors

New album 100 Days and 100 Nights due out in October. The new stuff up on their myspace is spectacular, particularly "Tell Me". Really excited for this.

http://www.myspace.com/sharonjonesandthedapkings

I hope this means they tour again. Best live show I've ever seen.

xp (And I've still yet to hear any other songs by her as good as that one. Though I admittedly haven't checked out everything she's done.)

I read one page of that article before becoming too disgusted to finish.

Sharon Jones OTM, basically.

Tangari agrees, but he thinks it's fair to ask if the Dap-Kings would be as popular if Jones were white.

"That's really hard to say, but I kind of don't think so," he says. "She'd just be coming from a different place, and it's also unlikely they'd have the same sound they do, which is part of what helps them."

questions like this are kinda bullshit IMO...like music "quality" is this scientific thing, you put a sharon jones MP3 in a petri dish and use and eye dropper to put some chemical on it and it turns blue if the music is "good"

i mean, sure, yeah race, class, clothes, personality, a whole shitload of things make a difference in how you see a performer

would bowie have been the same if he dropped the exact same ziggy stardust album but looked like rupert holmes?

http://www.comicgenius.com/DiscoFever/disco_profiles/rupert_holmes/images/rupert_holmes.jpg

Oh yeah -- Also heard her version of "This Land Is Your Land" again this week, by accident -- it was played over the opening credits of Up In The Air, which I finally rented through Netflix. Her song struck me as worse than the movie, which I didn't like all that much.

There are African-Americans still interested in soul though--but for the most part they're not interested in Sharon Jones because she's not marketed to them (and / or they may not like her throwback approach). When I saw Southern soul circuit regulars Lattimore and Marvin Sease and others on a big bill a year and a half ago at the Showplace Arena in Maryland outside Washington DC the nearly 3,000 people crowd consisted almost entirely of age 40 and up African-Americans. White guy me counted 5 other white people there. When I saw Sharon Jones at the 930 Club, the 1,000 person crowd was nearly all 20-something white folks. The Southern soul music labels are not reaching out to those Sharon Jones fans and those fans (including the likes of David Byrne, and Carrie Brownstein) are not seeking out Ecko and Malaco and other Southern soul label releases.

failure of marketing imo

sharon jones has a story angle -- the rikers island cop turned soul diva thing -- that npr-types love. that definitely accounts for some of their higher profile, right? but i'm curious -- you put sharon in front of a crowd like you describe in Maryland ... and they wouldn't go over well? they sort of strike me as a band that would go over well *anywhere*.

these kind of discussions always strike me as a way of avoiding having to handle the more difficult task of evaluating an artists work honestly & critically ...

It would be very sad if this kind of thing fuels a backlash against her. But it's not unlikely.

I hope this means they tour again. Best live show I've ever seen.

― The Reverend, Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:13 PM Bookmark

So should I splurge for NYE tickets since we have nothing else to do other than a couple of parties where we won't know anyone?

Fuck it, I did it.

Man, motherfuck a "processing fee" though. The tickets wound up about 20% more expensive than advertised. I'm writing to Obama about this.

worth every penny

"daerest obama, this sharon jones show was worth every penny!!! you should check her out when she plays dc!!!!"

rock the fuck out hurting; she's a a great show
i'm friends with one of the sweet divines; how'd ya like their fauxtown stylings?

Um, they weren't on the bill. I think you're thinking of the Marva Whitney show at the Bell House.

But Allen Toussaint was amazing.

The Dap-Kings are such a great, great band. They did "Get Out My Life Woman" with him and it really sounded like his original recording.

o fuck right, wrong show. tous is always an amazing time though; i think i've been at something like fourteen live perfs with him and he's always a mindboggler.

Just realized that my wedding photographer/shortlived former bassist in my band did the cover photo for I Learned the Hard Way. [ /brag ]

Blick?

Cool song, cooler video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrOYkHjdpdM

RIP

:(

Dammmmmnnnnnnnn.....,.,

RIP

Sharon Jones OTM

Wtf

RIP

oh no :(

RIP QUEEN

she was a supernova. RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99WYDZP5gtQ

oh, 2016

This sucks. RIP.

Fuck 2016

She was a force, and the way that she handled her illness was brave and inspiring. RIP.

Tribute on WKCR right now

http://www.stereogum.com/1912250/sharon-jones-had-a-stroke-while-watching-election-results/news/

RIP

just because.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmLl21gZjfM

Friend who did a lot of her photography is selling these amazing prints rn for $65 each in a giving tuesday flash sale

https://www.alltogetherprints.com/category/sharon-giving-tuesday?fbclid=IwAR1p8Ep6_d3MTGjpe39Qe5ZczKKH3QxYSlLF4Grmnvbv5vkDp9GPbeVazl0

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didn't know you knew Jacob!