Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | Brooklyn, NY, USA | |
| Genre(s) | Funk, Soul, R&B | |
| Years active | 1996 - Present | |
| Label(s) | Daptone | |
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| Sharon Jones El Michels Neal Sugarman Dave Guy Homer Steinweiss Binky Griptite Boogaloo Velez Tommy 'TNT' Brenneck Bosco Mann |
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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings are a funk/soul band. They are signed to Daptone Records, where the Dap-Kings are the house band.
Lead singer Sharon Jones originally appeared on the Soul Providers' album Soul Tequila, which started the collaboration between her and Bosco Mann aka Gabe Roth.
The Dap-Kings consist of various musicians in the New York Deep Funk scene, including Neal Sugarman, Binky Griptite, David Guy, Bosco Mann, Tommy Brenneck, Homer Steinweiss and Otis Youngblood.
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings have so far released two albums and a few singles on Daptone Records.
In 2006, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings were featured in an I Love NY commercial set to their cover of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land". The band's cover of Stevie Wonder's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" also appeared in a Chase Manhattan Bank commercial that same year. In Australia, their song "Got a Thing on my Mind" featured in a 2005 commencial for Cadbury's Boost Chocolate bar.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (May 2002, Daptone DAP-001)
- Naturally (January 2005, Daptone DAP-004)
[edit] Singles
- "Got a Thing on My Mind" (October 2001, Daptone DAP-1001)
- "Make It Good"/"Casella Walk" (December 2001, Daptone DAP-1004)
- "Got to Be the Way It Is Pts 1 & 2" (January 2002, Daptone DAP-1006)
- "What Have You Done for Me Lately" (April 2002, Daptone DAP-1009)
- "Pick It Up, Lay It in the Cut"/"Hard Eight" (June 2002, Daptone DAP-1011)
- "Genuine Pts 1 & 2" (January 2004, Daptone DAP-1016)
- "What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes"/"This Land Is Your Land" (September 2002, Daptone DAP-1019)
- "How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?" (November 2004, Daptone DAP-1020)
- "I Just Dropped in to See"/"What Condition My Condition Is In" (March 2005, Daptone DAP-1020)
- "How Do I Let a Good Man Down"/"My Man Is a Mean Man" (September 2005, Daptone DAP-1024)
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