NOW this woman really has soul. Sharon Jones rises up from an earlier age, managing to sound timeless and modern.
Neatly sidestepping modern R&B, Jones and the Dap-Kings serve up ten snappy foul and funk songs in 40 minutes, running through gospel-inspired tunes to updated James Brown (like Brown, Jones is from Augusta, Georgia).
Highlights include the opening How Do I Let A Good Man Down?, My Man Is A Mean Man and This Land Is Your Land. And then there is Stranded In Your Love, a lively cheesecake dialogue in which Lee Fields guests as the ex-boyfriend trying to wheedle his way back into his girlfriend's bed after becoming a crime statistic ("They done stole my car"). Magnificent, uplifting and properly musical.
Updated: 09:12 Thursday, June 23, 2005
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