Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: I Learned The Hard Way

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings have been known in the USA as one of the most one of the most exciting acts in terms of explosive live shows and impressive studio recordings. With their latest album "100 Days, 100 Nights", they have also achieved an international breakthrough and sold more than 150,000 records worldwide. Just in time for Sharon Jones' birthday this year, the band will release their fourth longplayer "I Learned The Hard Way" on the independent Brooklyn label Daptone Records Records. The album is an important step forward for the band for the band, who almost single-handedly started the return of soul to a more more traditional sound. "I Learned the Hard Way" was produced by Bosco Mann and engineered by Gabriel Gabriel Roth at the in-house House of Soul studios on the analog Ampex eight-track tape machine. The album literally drips with a Warmth and spontaneity reminiscent of the golden days and nights of Muscle Shoals and Shoals and Stax. Sharon's raw power, her rhythmic Her rhythmic braggadocio, plaintive soulfulness and effortless melodic Melodic mastery secure her a firm place in the canon of soul alongside alongside Tina Turner, James Brown, Mavis Staples and Aretha. From opening with the lush Philly soul fanfare "The Game Gets Old" to "Mama Don't Like My Man", the pleasantly purified final bow to Sam Final bow to Sam Cooke, the Dap Kings dance with their own subtlety and discipline their own subtlety and discipline through both their most elaborate and most and most accessible arrangements. "I Learned The Hard Way" is 'the Daptone Sound at its finest'.