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November 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: November 2020

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… For […]
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October 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In)

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Rendition Was In) Daptone Records It was such sad news that Sharon Jones died at just the age of 60. She was such a vital performer and her music – and the way she presented it – was all about joy. One […]
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January 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings: Soul of a Woman

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings Soul of a Woman DAPTONE Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings were, to me, first and foremost a live act – an incredible live act – and she (and expert soul-stylists, The Dap Kings) were never quite able to capture that sort of magic in the studio. She was […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Daptone, Funk, https://offthetracks.co.nz/r-i-p-sharon-jones/, posthumous, R.I.P., Retro, Sharon Jones, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings: Soul of a Woman, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Soul, Soul of a Woman, The Dap Kings ·

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November 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Sharon Jones

It was sad to hear the news over the weekend, that Sharon Jones has died. She was 60. She died of pancreatic cancer. Jones didn’t find anything resembling fame – or much of a career – until she was 40. Her 2002 debut full-length album, Dap Dippin’ with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings was my […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Eulogy, R.I.P., R.I.P. Sharon Jones, R'n'B, Retro, Sharon Jones, Soul, Soul Time!, The Dap Kings, What Have You Done For Me Lately ·

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November 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #171 – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Wellington, 2010

People seem to want to treat Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings like some second coming, as if it’s the closest – in this lifetime – they’ll get to seeing Aretha or Ella or Etta or whatever…and no, she’s not that great. I come and go with Sharon Jones really, can’t be bothered much at all […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2010, Aretha Franklin, Art Vandelay, Charles Bradley, Dominion Post, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Funk, Gig Review, Live, Live Gig, Opera House, Sharon Jones, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Soul, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #171 – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, The Dap Kings, Wellington ·

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August 20, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens: Cold World

Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens Cold World Daptone Records As both Naomi Shelton and sometimes Naomi Davis this is a singer who has worked! It’s that familiar – Daptone – story: years of slogging it out, joining the current (Daptone) revues too and just a couple of albums to her name despite a long […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Charles Bradley, Cold World, Daptone, Daptone Records, Funk, Gospel, Mavis Staples, Naomi Davis, Naomi Shelton, Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens, Sharon Jones, Soul, Staple Singers, Sugarman 3, The Gospel Queens ·

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July 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Lee Fields & The Expressions: Emma Jean

Lee Fields & The Expressions Emma Jean Truth & Soul Records I tend to not tolerate all this retro-hopeful faux-soul shtick. I just can’t get on the train like others – that Charles Bradley goon, for instance; does my head in. White guilt goes a long way toward people feeling there’s some soul when all […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bobby Womack, Charles Bradley, Emma Jean, J.J. Cale, Lee Feilds, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Magnolia, Sharon Jones, Soul, The Expressions ·

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February 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings: Give The People What They Want

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings Give The People What They Want DAPTONE It’s unlikely that the fifth album by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings shares anything in common with the eighteenth album by The Kinks (apart from a title) but anyway, here we go, we’re three lines into a review now and I […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Daptone, Give The People What They Want, Sharon Jones, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, The Dap Kings, The Kinks ·

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July 10, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Antibalas: Antibalas

Antibalas Antibalas Daptone/Shock It’s a great sound that Antibalas pays tribute to, for they are, essentially, a Fela Kuti covers act. Oh, they write their own material, mostly. But it is a trace-around of the king of Afrobeat’s offerings, so much so that the band has been in the pit for the musical Fela! This […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Afrobeat, Album Review, Antibalas, Daptone, Fela Kuti, Fela!, Sharon Jones, Shock, Who Is This America? ·

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