Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 05 Jun, 2008.

Sharon Jones has got right popular over the last year or so. Why you ask? Cos she's an enormous funstick with a top voice. She makes a right soulful racket and will appeal to fans of early funk (on the more souly tip). Think Aretha Franklin, Marva Whitney, etc... 100 Days and 100 Nights is a great soulful tune which when you hear it you'll think you've heard it a million times before. It sounds like a classic tune and that's cos it is... a modern classic I reckon. This is smashing soulful pop!

LIKE THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED NATURALLY LP BEFORE IT, 100 DAYS, 100 NIGHTS WAS RECORDED IN THEIR SELF-BUILT, SELF-OPERATED, ALL ANALOG RECORDING STUDIO IN BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN AND BARES THE UNMISTAKABLE DAPTONE SOUL SOUND - HIGHLY IN DEMAND AMONG MUSIC FANS AND TASTEMAKERS ALIKE. IN THE LAST YEAR, PRODUCERS SUCH AS KANYE WEST, MARK RONSON, HANK SHOCKLEE, AND KENNY DOPE HAVE BEEN AMONG THOSE WHO CAME KNOCKING AT DAPTONE’S DOOR SEEKING THE INIMITABLE DAP-KINGS SOUND. THE DAP-KINGS LEND A TOUGHER EDGE TO THEIR OWN PRODUCTIONS FOR SUCH ARTISTS AS RHYMEFEST, LILY ALLEN, GHOSTFACE KILLAH AND AMY WINEHOUSE. MEANWHILE, SHARON JONES HERSELF HAS PAST THE TIME BETWEEN TOURING LENDING THE HER SOULFUL VOICE TO PROJECTS FOR LOU REED, RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS AND OTHERS.

THOUGH THESE PROJECTS HAVE HELPED THE BAND BRANCH OUT TO NEW FANS, IT IS UNQUESTIONABLE THAT THEIR SOUND HAS NEVER BEEN AS BRUTALLY SOULFUL OR MASTERFULLY DELIVERED AS IT IS ON THEIR OWN 100 DAYS, 100 NIGHTS. THE RAW FIRE AND SOUL WHICH SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS CONSISTENTLY POUR INTO THEIR MUSIC WILL MAKE THIS RECORD AND THIS BAND AN IRREPLACEABLE PART OF MANY PEOPLE’S LIVES.

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