Name: I Learned The Hard Way
Brand: Sharon Jones

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-DAPT-019

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2010-04-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

823134001923

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Sharon Jones

Genre US

R'n'B

Label US

​Sharon Jones &amp; the Dap-Kings are already well known as one of the most exciting acts in the nation for both their explosive live shows and their prolic output of gritty studio recordings. Their breakout release, 100 Days, 100 Nights , has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. The follow-up I Learned the Hard Way, their fourth full-length on Brooklyn's independent Daptone Records marks a bold step forward for a band who almost single-handedly stewarded today's return of soul music to its more traditional sound.Produced by Bosco Mann and recorded on an Ampex eight-track tape machine by Gabriel Roth in Daptone Records' House of Soul studios, the record drips with a warmth and spontaneity rarely found since the golden days of Muscle Shoals and Stax. Sharon's raw power, rhythmic swagger, moaning soulfulness, and melodic command set her firmly alongside Tina Turner, James Brown, Mavis Staples, and Aretha as a fixture in the canon of soul music. From the lush Philly-Soul fanfare that ushers in The Game Gets Old at the top of the record, to the stripped down Sam Cooke-style Mama Don't Like My Man at the tail, the Dap-Kings dance seamlessly through both the most crafted and simple arrangements with subtlety and discipline. I Learned the Hard Way is the Daptone Sound at its finest.

I Learned The Hard Way

Music US