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Artist: Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
Label: Daptone
Category: Music
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $10.11
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 1118
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 12
UPC: 823134001220
EAN: 0823134001220
ASIN: B000UO75AY
Release Date: October 2, 2007
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
| • | 100 Days, 100 Nights | | • | Nobody's Baby | | • | Tell Me | | • | Be Easy | | • | When the Other Foot Drops, Uncle | | • | Let Them Knock | | • | Something's Changed | | • | Humble Me | | • | Keep On Looking | | • | Answer Me |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
In the new millennium, soul has become big business again. But despite succulent re-issues from labels like Astralwerks and Light in the Attic, the resurgence of seasoned soul sisters like Bettye LaVette, and the volcanic popularity of new-soul crooners like Amy Winehouse, the champions of the new generation's purist strain are Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings. After the often upbeat, always exciting sounds of 2005's Naturally, the band's next outing comes off as a slightly more tempered affair. The title track opens with an indefatigable statement of purpose, dropping into a late-stage, sub-halftime groove so Jones can fully "take [her] time" lamenting her missing man. Elsewhere, her voice effortless treads the heights and depths of its range with timeless aplomb ("Be Easy," "When the Other Foot Drops, Uncle," "Answer Me"). The Dap Kings themselves have reached a pocket-digging near-perfection, recent collaborations with Kanye West, Lily Allen, and the aforementioned Winehouse, yielding the sounds of a band at the top of its game. At times, these tracks court the uninspired flavor of the wholly derivative, but in all, 100 Days, 100 Nights makes for a very welcome addition to any avid listener's contemporary soul music library. --Jason Kirk
Album Description
100 Days, 100 Nights comes with a FREE bonus CD titled "Binky Griptite's GhettoFunkPowerHour". It is an HOUR LONG mixtape-style compilation that includes highlights from the entire Daptone catalog, with Dap-Kings MC/guitarist Binky Griptite providing commentary between songs. Talk about your added value!
Album Description
Although singer Sharon Jones first began attracting attention during the late '90s, her smoky, soulful voice and blistering grooves harked back three decades earlier to the heyday of funk, evoking the music of James Brown proteges like Marva Whitney and Lynn Collins with uncanny precision; not surprising, given that the veteran Jones was well into her 40s by the time she began earning wide recognition. On their own independent Daptone label, the band has sold over 50,000 copies of their first two records (not to mention over 20K vinyl 7's) without any major label support or promotion. The Dap-Kings have been highly sought after, working with artist such as Amy Winehouse, Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Hank Schocklee, Kenny Dope, Lilly Allen, and Rhymefest.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 Funk for any era-made in 21st Century!!! June 25, 2008
I got this back in December, and I'm now kicking myself for not discovering her earlier albums, and I'm now in the process of buying them from Amazon. She can sing, and for the younger people reading this, you don't have to look like Beyonce to get an album. (Sharon Jones is not ugly by any stretch of the imagination, by the way. Besides, she's a better singer than Beyonce and most of the pretty girl singers that the Music Industry has forced on R&B/Pop/Rap and Hip Hop the last few years.) I'm eagerly awaiting her next release.
Oh YEAH!!! June 15, 2008
I bought this after reading the other reviews about the ablum and am THRILLED to say that all the good things are TRUE!!! This is a friggin' classic from A to tomorrow. All that which sounds paradoxically, classically true in Amy Wine-weed-and-whatever-else-detox-house is even better here with Sharon's vastly superior vocals. FYI, that which turns me on with this disc is largely true of James Hunter's "People Gonna Talk" disc. They both do a fantastic job of capturing that distinctive sound of late '60's soul/blues hit parade. It's largely from the brilliance of the engineering and production staff at the studio, so keep those guys in mind as you smile while listening to either (and if you like James, buy this and vice versa!).
THE REAL DEAL June 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really hate all this retro this and throwback that.
THIS IS SOUL MUSIC, R and goddamned B !!!
RnB is not some idiot note bending over computer generated beeps and thuds. I dont care what MTV calls it.
Buy this today, and something tells me your Beyonce, Usher and Justine Timberlake
CD's will be in the trash tomorrow.
Soul music lives! May 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was late, like most people were, in discovering Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, but I am so glad I did! Recently I heard the title cut being played in the Virgin Mega Store, and was totally blown away by the music and the vocalist. Turns out I had been seeing this CD on display for a LONG time - around the time when Amy Winehouse blew up. Yet Sharon and her group were getting little to no publicity, doing the same type of music as the troubled beehive-styled songstress. We see all of the acclaim that Winehouse got for her BACK TO BLACK CD, and I admit I really loved that CD because of the retro-soul style. But let me tell you, without this phenomenal band backing her up, Winehouse's CD would have been just average. With a much better vocalist at the microphone, 100 DAYS, 100 NIGHTS is pure soul and I love the fact that SOUL MUSIC IS BACK and it's because of artists like Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings!
This CD takes you back to the days when soul music ruled the airwaves, when there were REAL musicians, REAL singers, and such a thing as professionalism and style. When I hear what is passing for so-called R&B these days, it's enough to make you vomit - minimally talented, overhyped and overrated "vocalists" warbling meaningless excuses called lyrics over 20 and 30 year old looped samples and computer generated beats. That is NOT what R&B and soul is. Thank God that there is an audience out here that demands the REAL thing, like what is featured on this disc.
Think of how important the Funk Brothers were to the Motown Sound of the '60s, of how essential James Brown's band was to his musical compositions, throw in the grit, funk and soulfulness of those old Atlantic, Atco and Stax records coming from down South and you'll get the gist of what this band is all about. Ms. Jones is a vocal powerhouse and her voice suits the retro-soul genre well. Had she been around back in the day, it's for certain that she would have given other high-profile soul divas some SERIOUS competition. My favorites: "100 Days, 100 Nights", "Nobody's Baby", "When The Other Foot Drops, Uncle", "Something's Changed", "Humble Me" (this is my absolute favorite of all the songs - has an Otis Redding-ish kind of feeling to it), "Keep On Looking" (you will be thinking of the JB's when you hear this one!) and "Answer Me", which is a gospel song with a Memphis soul twist. Fantastic!
I intend to pick up the other CDs by Sharon & the Dap-Kings, because if 100 DAYS, 100 NIGHTS is any indication of what else is out there by them, then they have a new fan in me. Lovers of real soul music cannot afford not to own this.
 Sharon Jones 100 days 100 nights May 19, 2008
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!!!)
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