Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Waterfront Blues Festival
Portland, OR.
July 5, 2009

Recorded from KBOO FM a local all volunteer radio station. There are always reception problems and drops in sound from this station. Maybe it's just where I live. Anyway, I have tried to find and fix all the drops in sound. This year not all the first day was broadcast. Not sure why. Etta James canceled and was replaced by Keb Mo' but his recording contract wouldn't allow his broadcast.

Please understand that I don't know all these bands and it's hard for me to come up with all the set list's. I'll do my best and ask for help when needed.

Linage: FM tuner straight to HD>CD Wave>TLH>FLAC>torrent.

This is a big undertaking for me every year and I love doing it. Please leave your comments, I enjoy reading them. Enjoy the tunes, twofthrs


With a retro sound that goes beyond just an homage to the past, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are bringing classic soul and funk to another generation of listeners. In the late '90s, Sharon Jones quickly earned the title "Queen of Funk" for her work at Desco Records. When Desco, an independent label specializing in traditional funk and soul pressed exclusively to wax, closed it's doors because of financial issues, Jones and Desco co-owner Bosco Mann put together a new group. In 2001, the new group Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, released their debut CD Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings to pick-up where Desco left off.

Over the next three years, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings would tour extensively and built a reputation as the unrivaled frontrunners of old-school Soul and Funk music. In 2006, the band returned to the studio. The resulting 100 Days, 100 Nights features more extensive songwriting and arranging contributions for a deeper, more soulful return to traditional R&B roots. Blender wrote: "The band replicates the surface effect of Otis Redding ballads, New Orleans jams and Motown pop-soul down to the last tambourine rattle."

Both Jones and her Dap-Kings have also been busy with other projects in the last few years. Jones is featured on Rufus Wainwright and They Might Be Giants most recent recordings. The Dap-Kings recorded half of the music on Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black including the hit single "Rehab." Spin wrote 'Her crack band of Dap-Kings have enlivened everyone from Kanye to Amy Winehouse, but their most natural habitat is in Jones' Aretha-like tales of sex, independence, and the good Lord himself.'"

Set List
first two tracks Dap Kings only
1. insturmental
2. ?
3. sharon jones intro > i'm not gonna cry
4. got to be the way it is
5. ?
6. tell me
7. without a heart
8. sharon talks
9. i wonder who's lovin' you
10. one more chance
11. be easy
12. loving you
13. ? > '65 medley > ?
14. 100 days, 100 nights