Take a listen to some of their music from their MySpace Page.

Get ready for the funky soul of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. They are signed to Daptone Records, where the Dap-Kings are the house band. These cats responsible for bringing back that sound which stives to capture the essence of funk/soul music as it was at its height in the mid-1960s to mid-1970s. The methods they use to achieve this sound and feel is to avoide the modern digital recording methods in favour of using traditional analogue recording equipment.

The Dap-Kings are the hardest working band in showbiz at the moment. They were hired as session musicians on a number of projects associated with New York based DJ/producer/recording artist Mark Ronson. Most notable of these is their extensive inclusion and somewhat unheralded contribution to Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black (2006). Six of the album's eleven tracks feature various members of the Dap-Kings with two notable hits from the album, "Rehab" and "You Know I'm No Good", extensively featuring the Dap-Kings. A further engineering credit goes to Gabriel Roth and several tracks recorded at Daptone Studios are mis-credited as "Dapking Studios". The Dap-Kings also backed up Amy Winehouse on her first U.S. tour. In 2007 the Dap-Kings worked with British singer Ben Westbeech to record a new version of his song "So Good Today"; it was released to mark the first anniversary of Brownswood recordings, the label Westbeech is signed to in the UK. Sharon Jones lends her vocals on one song "The Way We Lived", on Wax Tailor's second album "Hope & Sorrow", released in April '07. Sharon Jones recently contributed six period numbers by Bessie Smith and others to the soundtrack for the film "The Great Debaters" (she is also in the movie briefly) which was recorded at the legendary Ardent Studio in Memphis.

Check out 100 Days, 100 Nights, it has so much soul.

Opening the show will be The Menahan Street Band is a collaboration of musicians from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and the Budos Band, brought together by musician/producer Thomas Brenneck to record hits in the bedroom of his Menahan St. apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Their debut single was sampled by Jay-Z on his smash "Roc Boys" track, and this all-star band, featuring members of Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Antibalas, the Budos Band and El Michels Affair, is ripe for a few more tasty bites. All instrumental grooves with a diverse set of influences that coalesce around a funky, laid-back '70s soul sound, a la Curtis Mayfield's early solo productions. Talk about a top notch bill!!!

Check out: Make The Road By Walking, also on Daptone Records (released October 14, 2008)

-fS