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As a member of Local 506*, you can get into the Sharon Jones and the
Dap-Kings / DJ Marco show at half-price ($4) with a Dirtbombs ticket
stub from the Cats Cradle.  This promotion will kick in once the
Dirtbombs finish their set.  Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings will be
playing two sets that night and DJ Marco and the SolidSoundSystems
DJ's will be spinning til last call.
 
*Keep in mind, to qualify as a member you must be signed up in advance
(see prior email/posts - you can do this via paypal using
Local506 AT earthlink.net - it's $2.)  You can not sign up at the door
that night and qualify for the half-price admission.
 
As Roxanne Shante once said, "Come One, Come All - Come Have a Ball" -
glenn
 
ps: here's the indy article on the Dap Kings...
 
The Dap-Kings are the house band for Brooklyn-based Daptone Records,
and the combustible eight-piece bills itself as the "world's mightiest
live funk and soul revue." All you have to do is glance at the names
(no doubt more than a couple of them noms de soul) on the Dap-Kings'
roll--Homer "Funky-Foot" Jenkins on drums, bandleader Bosco "Bass"
Mann on bass, and Otis Youngblood on baritone sax, for starters--and
you can feel the hard funk vibrating your fillings. Now put them
behind church-schooled belter Sharon Jones, a product of James Brown's
hometown of Augusta, Ga., and you've got yourself a stick of soul
dynamite with a short fuse.
May 5, 2004
 
M U S I C   S P O T L I G H T 
 
 
The collaboration between Ms. Jones and the Dap-Kings began in the
late '90s when the Dap-Kings were known as the Soul Providers
recording for the Desco label. "An ex-fiance of mine was playing
saxophone with them, and they needed a singer to do backgrounding for
Lee Fields (another Desco/Daptones artist)," Jones explains. "I came
in, and we just clicked."




 
Good grooves, good sound: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings 

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That's an understatement. On Dap-Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the
Dap-Kings, Daptone's first full-length release after a fistful of
primo 45s, Jones and the band sizzle, quake, and stomp. Anything as
wimpy as a click is well buried under layers of stutter-stepping
guitars and staccato horns, topped off by Jones' gospel-funk vocals;
it's the righteous sound of sweat earned the old-fashioned way. The
vibe is pure chitlin circuit (on which the Durham Armory was a favored
stop). Even the album's cover shot and the mapped-out dance steps
inside nail the feel of a time and place some 30 or 40 years past.
Amazingly, with the exception of Janet Jackson's "What Have You Done
for Me Lately?", which Jones makes her own (prompting an excited
e-mail from a Sharon Jones fan about how Jackson had done a Jones
cover), all the songs are originals written and arranged by Mann.
As hot as the record is, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are known for
their live show. "Oh man, just a bunch of energy. Good groove, good
sound," Jones says when asked what the crowd can expect from a Daptone
Records revue. "The guys in the band really get into it. It comes from
the heart, you know? And I've always felt that what comes from the
heart, reaches the heart."

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings play Saturday, May 8 at Local 506 with DJ
Marco and May 9 at Kings Barcade with Masadi Music.