Naturally (Vinyl)

Soul fans lamenting a dearth of vintage downhome R&B and funk in the new millennium have clearly never heard Brooklyn's Sharon Jones. Put out by the Brooklyn label Daptone and backed by the label's house band, the Dap-Kings, Jones's music references the glory days of Stax and Atlantic Records and is rife with the organic grooves of Muscle Shoals. Jones didn't begin recording until roughly middle age, and her life experience rings true in her deep, gritty vocals. Through their work with Jones, the Dap-Kings developed a reputation in their own right as one of the finest instrumental backing bands around, and supported notorious new-soul diva Amy Winehouse on her 2006 breakthrough, BACK TO BLACK.

• Category:  Music  »  R&B  »  Soul
• Format: Vinyl   Learn more about the Vinyl format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: September 4, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Daptone Records
• UPC: 823134000414
• WAPI (Tower ID): 110894863
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #78470 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #3912 in R&B (See Top 100 R&B Bestsellers)
• #407 in Soul (See Top 100 Soul Bestsellers)

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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Sharon Jones (vocals); Tommy "TNT" Brenneck (guitar, piano); Binky Griptite (guitar, background vocals); Neal Sugarman (tenor saxophone); El Michels (baritone saxophone); Dave Guy (trumpet); Bosco Mann (piano, vibraphone, bass guitar, tambourine); Homer Steinweiss (drums); Boogaloo Velez (congas).

Additional personnel: Lee Fields (strings).

NATURALLY was released in 2008, but from Sharon Jones's deeply soulful vocal performances to the Dap-Kings lean, air-tight funk, this album (the follow-up to Jones's equally excellent debut, DAP DIPPIN') sounds vintage enough to come straight from the glory days. On cuts such as "My Man Is a Mean Man" and "Your Thing Is a Drag," Jones & Co. churn out snappy, get-on-up riffs and rhythms that recall the JB's in their heyday. But NATURALLY also points elsewhere in the history of R&B, with the smooth soul-pop of "How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?" and the smoldering ballad "You're Gonna Get It" leaning more toward the sounds of Motown and Stax/Volt (to say nothing of her soul-fried version of "This Land is Your Land"). Jones is a singer of emotional substance with the pipes to match, and her band never misses a lick. Old-school fans of funk-fueled soul should rejoice: the music is alive and well.

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