{"id":20887,"date":"2021-04-22T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T09:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=20887"},"modified":"2021-04-19T16:17:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T20:17:13","slug":"album-review-sharon-jones-the-dap-kings-dap-dippin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/22\/album-review-sharon-jones-the-dap-kings-dap-dippin\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Sharon Jones &#038; the Dap-Kings &#8211; Dap Dippin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20888\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sharon_jones_dap_dippin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sharon_jones_dap_dippin.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sharon_jones_dap_dippin-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Curated by Eddie Roberts of the New Mastersounds, Rare Sounds is a new subscription service that unearths gems from various genres, reissuing them on vinyl. The first round of releases included The Greyboy Allstars\u2019 <i>West Coast Boogaloo<\/i> and the debut from Roberts\u2019 band, <i>Keb Darge Presents The New Mastersounds<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The third record in that first round is the debut release from Sharon Jones &amp; the Dap-Kings, 2002\u2019s <i>Dap Dippin\u2019<\/i>. The record was released on vinyl before, but it has been unavailable in that format for many years. The record show Ms. Jones and her band with a fully formed sound and style, one familiar those who kept up with the funky soul of the late \u201860s and early \u201870s. Jones\u2019 approach is gritty and real, made in Brooklyn, a million miles (metaphorically if not literally) from Berry Gordy\u2019s Motown.<\/p>\n<p>The ten songs on <i>Dap Dippin\u2019<\/i> sound like deep cuts from way back when, but in fact they\u2019re all written by Bosco Mann, producer of the record, bassist and bandleader of the Dap-Kings (and head of Daptone Records). Yet though it\u2019s his name on the sleeve as writer, Jones makes every one of these sides her own. A representative cut is \u201cDap Dip,\u201d more a groove than a song. It\u2019s fiery on vinyl, but one expects it would have been even more incendiary live onstage.<\/p>\n<p>And while <i>Dap Dippin\u2019<\/i> isn\u2019t a live album, it benefits from the live energy that Jones and her musicians brought to the session. The group\u2019s later albums may sport a bigger production aesthetic: compare \u201cRetreat!\u201d from 2014\u2019s <i>Give the People What They Want<\/i> and the difference is staggering. But <i>Dap Dippin\u2019<\/i> makes up what it lacks in polish by delivering immediacy.<\/p>\n<p>As part of Rare Sounds\u2019 first box entitled <i>The Essentials<\/i>, Jones\u2019 debut LP more than delivers on the promise of that label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curated by Eddie Roberts of the New Mastersounds, Rare Sounds is a new subscription service that unearths gems from various genres, reissuing them on vinyl. The first round of releases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,64,65,69,73],"tags":[610,751,4503,1938],"class_list":["post-20887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funk","category-reissue","category-review","category-soul","category-vinyl","tag-dap-kings","tag-eddie-roberts","tag-rare-sounds","tag-sharon-jones","cat-31-id","cat-64-id","cat-65-id","cat-69-id","cat-73-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20889,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions\/20889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}