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This CD breaks all my rules. I mean, it sounds like classic 50s-60s soul, but it's been written and recorded right now. And ordinarily I'd sniffily call this sort of music "wanna-be soul" - except it doesn't wanna be, it damn well is.
Sharon can wail like Aretha or Diana or any one of those fabulous soul divas, and that band is tight. Plus (and I don't mean to sound like a production Nazi here, but) that production is faultless.
This music is like discovering a whole new novel by an author you love and thought you'd read everything they'd ever written. It's a modern classic.
VERDICT: TURN IT UP and get boogying, y'all
YOURZ
Thank you, Spicks And Specks. If it weren't for this excellent music quiz show, we wouldn't have heard about the marvellous voice of Sharon Jones and her incredile soul-funk band, The Dap-Kings. Appearing on an episode, she blew us away with one of the challenges, to sing a song using the words of an unrelated piece of text. She was, simply and crudely put, fucking brilliant.
In fact, we have Spicks And Specks to thank for a number of our favourite pieces of music but more of that later. In the meantime, 100 Days, 100 Nights could easily be the soundtrack to our other viewing experience of late, that of the marvellous HBO series, Treme. Take the hint, sucker, and get watching!
We've expressed our love of good funk and soul before and while this isn't breaking new ground, it certainly shows there is still great music being made in this genre. You just gotta keep an eye out for it.
VERDICT: TURN IT UP and shimmy like a slinky thang, you...
For more information: http://www.daptonerecords.com/pages/stable_sharon.html
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