Dap-Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

[rostasi]

She'll be performing on the radio program "Fair Game" tonight

if your NPR/PRI station picks this up:

http://pri.morefairgame.org/index.html

Kind of surprised to hear about this last night,

'cause the show usually features bad singer-songwriters,

but one night they actually featured Antibalas(!!!)

[HolyStitt]

anyone pick up the sharon jones cd 100 days, 100 nights?

I played it last week at work & enjoyed it, though I will have to bring it home to get a better feel for it.

I am seeing her & the band in concert next month at First Avenue for the first time.

[rostasi]

Anyone who missed Fair Game last night can hear mp3s here.

Sharon Jones told a story about singing at a wedding party.

The groom was being tossed up in the air using a large tablecloth

as a kind of trampoline. Jones was singing Shout ("You know you make me want to SHOUT...")

during all of this and something went wrong and BAM, the groom landed on his head.

They had to call an ambulance, etc...

but she said that she just kept right on singing...

Edited October 21, 2007 by rostasi

[Alexander]

"100 Days. 100 Nights" is a wonderful album. Certainly the equal of Jones' first two albums. My copy came with a fun sampler disc of other Daptone releases put together in the form of a radio show hosted by Binky Griptite! I'd certainly like to check out some of the other albums on the label...

[Jazzmoose]

So, a question for you people with her LPs (or CDs): is the single I'm Not Gonna Cry on any of them? Because I have to have that song!

[Man with the Golden Arm]

So, a question for you people with her LPs (or CDs): is the single I'm Not Gonna Cry on any of them? Because I have to have that song!

I think that was just a 45. w/ a B-side instrumental of same.

PM sent.

[Jazzmoose]

Cool! I hadn't heard the instrumental before; thanks!

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Now me needs to find "Nervous Like Me" - the Dap Kings w/ Kenny Dope!

??

[JSngry]

Now me needs to find "Nervous Like Me" - the Dap Kings w/ Kenny Dope!

??

http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=gw6...p%3Bincl_cs%3D1

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Now me needs to find "Nervous Like Me" - the Dap Kings w/ Kenny Dope!

??

http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=gw6...p%3Bincl_cs%3D1

thanks Jim... now that Keb Debarge is new to me and that "New Mastersounds" album I've trickled into sounds outta control.

[Noj]

Which one is Keb?

[Alexander]

Which one is Keb?

God, the 80s SUCKED! Look at those HORRIBLE outfits!

[Chalupa]

Sharon played here last Friday night. I couldn't make it but, I found a mini review w/ photos....

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/articles/16061

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/photo_ga...snapshot_jones/

[Soulstation1]

bad ass

[JSngry]

Well, yeah, I mean, I knew it was going to be good and all that, but the whole thing w/the retro packaging and the faux-60s King studio sound and all that other stuff had me thinking in the back of my mind that this was going to be funk-once-removed, if you know what I mean, and in kind of a way it is, although there's not that sense of "skipped a generation or two, trying to get it back now" that turns me off faster than a dog shitting in my picnic basket 5 minutes before lunchtime.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NJtXE8PDm2A&feature=related

I mean, hey, I don't know if this goes beyond "imitation" or if it's just imitation done at the level of artistry, but DAMN.

"Clever" ain't enough, and this is enough, so...

[analogak]

i bet those dip guys were playing in a ska band 5 years ago

[John L]

I agree entirely about the last two Bettye Lavette albums. I just don't get it. "A Woman Like Me" was something close to a modern day soul masterpiece, and got no attention at all. Then they drive Bettye down to Fat Possum, take her out of her musical element, feed her a whole lot of fake "nobody's lived as tough a street life as me" lyrics, and presto! Commercial success.

Bring back the old Bettye, PLEASE.

Edited December 21, 2007 by John L

[JSngry]

emo-ska

good for sharon making some bones but tejas skeptical enthusiasm (if edc may characterize it as such)

Incredulous skeptical enthusiasm is more like it, because there should be no way that this stuff feels like it does. You can call it wishful thinking on my part, or projection, or a peculiarly personal congenital blind spot, whatever, but I've heard 80 bajillion people "try" and do something like this, and the Bogus-O-Meter blows a gasket at, at most, 3 songs (or a ballad, whichever comes first). And yet..

And yet.

[Big Wheel]

Has anyone linked to this one yet? For the Big Lebowski fan in the family. Pretty sure it's only available on the 45s from the website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7nVZhqb04

Edited December 22, 2007 by Big Wheel

[DukeCity]

Has anyone linked to this one yet? For the Big Lebowski fan in the family. Pretty sure it's only available on the 45s from the website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7nVZhqb04

OK, that's a little synchronicious! I clicked on your post as I'm watching the Big Lebowski, right in the middle of that dream sequence, with that song playing!

[John L]

emo-ska

good for sharon making some bones but tejas skeptical enthusiasm (if edc may characterize it as such)

Incredulous skeptical enthusiasm is more like it, because there should be no way that this stuff feels like it does. You can call it wishful thinking on my part, or projection, or a peculiarly personal congenital blind spot, whatever, but I've heard 80 bajillion people "try" and do something like this, and the Bogus-O-Meter blows a gasket at, at most, 3 songs (or a ballad, whichever comes first). And yet..

And yet.

I certainly don't have any problem with bands like this. The kind of retro-funk that they play is great dance music. It was then and it still is now. As you say, the difference between the Dap-Kings and most other bands that play retro funk is that the Dap-Kings are DAMN good at it. Sure, in the Winter of 2007, you can hear good funk coming from some DJs, rappers, drum machines, and computers. Some of that is fine dance music as well. But there is still something special about an all human aggregation like this that all the new technology in the world has yet to replace.

This is still my preferred kind of booty-shaking music. It is fantastic that somebody is still playing it with this kind of dedication.

Edited December 22, 2007 by John L

[Alexander]

any thoughts?

You're the world's biggest killjoy? Hey, you asked...

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

So, who's the audience for this stuff - white crate-diggers?

MG

[analogak]

these dips are a bogus enterprise.

[analogak]

a little syl johnson on the ones and twos last night...