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Jan 18 Charlottesville VA @ Satellite Ballroom SOLD OUT
Jan 19 Atlanta GA @ Variety Playhouse SOLD OUT
Jan 21 Orlando FL @ the Social
Jan 22 Tampa FL @ Skipper’s Smokehouse
Jan 23 Tallahassee FL @ Club Down Under
Jan 24 New Orleans LA @ House of Blues
Jan 25 Houston TX @ Walters
Jan 26 Austin TX @ Antone’s SOLD OUT
Jan 27 Dallas TX @ Granada Theatre
Jan 29 Lawrence KS @ Granada Theatre
Jan 30 St Louis MO @ Duck Room SOLD OUT
Jan 31 Cincinnati OH @ Bogarts
Feb 1 Louisville KY @ Headliners
Feb 2 Nashville TN @ Mercy Lounge
Feb 15 New York NY @ Beacon Theater (Budos Band supports)
“Does the start of 2008 mean “out with the old, in with new?” Not for a 51-year-old singer and the band she fronts, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. For three albums and around a dozen years together in various configurations, this musical family has favored big, brassy grooves over boom-bap beats; lyrics about bein’ cool or in love over more time-sensitive material; vocals with raw emotion straight from the gut over those pumped up in the studio; and analog over digital recording techniques. The result: a batch of funk and soul jams that sound like something Stax Records forgot to release several decades ago. Old-school stuff? This is “real music,” Miss Jones says…” – The Washington Times [READ MORE]
“An influence and precursor to Amy Winehouse, Sharon Jones is a great artist worth getting to know on her own terms… Before there was Amy Winehouse, there was Sharon Jones. In fact, Winehouse plays the mistress to Ms. Jones. That Mr. Jones Winehouse sings about in song? It might as well be the men in Jones’ backing band, the Dap-Kings…” – Metro Weekly [READ MORE]
“I’ve been around,” she says. “When James Brown and Aretha and Tina Turner were singing in the ’60s, they were young. I’m doing what they did in their 20s in my 40s and 50s. So I’m off by 30 years.” – Sharon Jones @ Read Express [READ MORE]
“But Jones says she still has much further to go…. “What we’re doing is an independent thing, so we’re not rich,” she says with a throaty chuckle. “We work in a studio in the ‘hood in Brooklyn, OK? People say, ‘You’ve made it now.’ I say I’ll make it when I can move my mama out of the projects and into a house I built for her. I just want to be comfortable. It’s about time.” – Sharon Jones @ Baltimore Sun [READ MORE]
Artist: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Album: 100 Days, 100 Nights
Label: Daptone Records
Street Date: October 2nd, 2007
Formats: CD, vinyl, mp3
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