Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
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Free Music Review: Sharon Jones 100 days 100 nights
Hit: 4 Stars
This cd is ok but it is missing something in the production department, I don't know wheather its the engineering or what. Maybe it is so real that I miss the studio trickery you hear on most cds these days. Anyway I hear a little Curtis Mayfield, some Big O and some serious Southern Soul.It could be that I have been listen to a lot Sam Cooke lately. I'll listen to it about five more times and render my final verdict.(I got it!!! there are no background vocals!!!)Free Music Review: 100 DAYS 100 NIGHTS
Hit: 4 Stars
A SURPRISINGLY TALENTED R&B SINGER JUST WHEN I THOUGHT EVERYTHING HAD GONE TO HIP HOP GARBAGE, SHARON JONES IS OUTSTANDING AND NEEDS TO BE DISCOVERED BY THE REST OF THE COUNTRY AND NOT HIDDEN IN BROOKLYN , NEW YORKFree Music Review: too short
Hit: 4 Stars
Sharon Jones' new album is GREAT, except that at slightly over a half hour in length, it's more of a demo than an actual album. Kind of a rip-off, really.Free Music Review: Sharon croooons
Hit: 4 Stars
Sharon is good......new to me which is why i was interested. i understand why amy winehouse uses her back-up band.Free Music Review: Strong *3*
Hit: 3 Stars
If you miss - if you *love* the '65 to '69 soul to funk era of Stax/King/Atco, etc., you'll *love*, or at least dig-without-reservation this new CD for Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. I'm not sure what a "Dap" is (unless it's a technique in which a painter uses particulate pats in a wave on a canvas, to actually highlight space - in music, that might be a key to the way Maceo Parker applies those full-bodied "beeps" if you will, in a way to draw in the viewer, the aural viewer to those wonderous silences), but I did know what a "Dapp" was way back when I learned that they made great records with James Brown.
Yes, that JB sound pervades, so draw the shades, and Sharon says "Let Them Knock", but don't come back tomorrow night to try again, 'cause it's 3am and I don't have dreams to remember, I have one to live out right now, that's what my man is for.
Other presumptive influences are Otis Redding, Tina Turner, Chaka Khan (on one track, very nice), Lynn Collins, Vicki Anderson....
Gotta say it, though: "100 Days, 100 Nights", [somewhat of an amalgam of "Wasted Days, Wasted Nights" and "Please, Please, Please"] the song and the album come off like an overproduced demonstration tape.
Sharon is not a great singer - she's a world-class soul-jazz *stylist*, with a voice-box of refined apricot brandy, without the alchohol, but with even more kick. How many singers can get your heart beating to it's optimum *and* bring out a tear? That's why her voice should not be used as a blending element of the music, but as a lead instrument. If you listen to those great sides by Lynn, Vicki, Marva Whitney, as distinquished as the session men were, as progressive as the instrumentation and arrangements were, the talent and heart of the artist sold the record. She might not have the power and dynamic range of these icons, but a true stylist has that something extra...that grabs you.
The CD comes with a surprise CD, a late '60s style "mock" radio broadcast - if you're from the New York area, then it's instantaneous memories of WWRL and Frankie Crocker. "We got the new James Brown.......".
It creatively incorporates many other Dap-Kings artists - just like on Sharon's gig, every single song is for the duration!