Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way I Learned The Hard Way and more contemporarily with the

and more contemporarily with the 1997 release of the Buena Vista Social Club album - the group's self titled debut feels like a heartfelt gift from the band to listener

the record drips with a warmth and spontaneity rarely found since the golden days of Muscle Shoals and Stax

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Toby built a home studio from scratch and employed some of the top soul musicians in the world to help him breath life into this album

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way I Learned The Hard Way and more contemporarily with theI Learned the Hard Way was produced 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. Sharons 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