{"id":6801,"date":"2016-11-22T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T15:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2016-11-22T13:10:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T18:10:44","slug":"sharon-jones-1956-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6801","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Jones 1956 – 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miss Sharon Jones <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download – Sharon Jones – Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – Sharon Jones, Lee Fields and the Dap-Kings – Stranded In Your Love MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This has been an exceptionally tough couple of weeks (this is the fourth memorial post in a row).<\/p>\n

Sometimes it feels like the universe is out to get us.<\/p>\n

Among the many losses, and in many ways the most painful, was the passing of Miss Sharon Jones.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jones, the brightest light of the modern funk\/soul world, and front woman for the mighty Dap-Kings<\/strong> lost a long battle with cancer at the age of 60.<\/p>\n

Jones, who only really got to start climbing the ladder of musical success at the age of 40, had worked as a corrections office in Rikers Island in NYC and an armed guard, before joining up with Daptone.<\/p>\n

She was born in Augusta, GA (There was a time\u2026<\/em>) and sang her entire life, fronting wedding bands and wailing in choir lofts, all the while stretching and honing her powerful voice.<\/p>\n

Starting in 1996 she recorded a hot string of 45s and LPs, and became the most famous proponent of the classic soul revival (I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a better term, but I have neither the time nor the energy to hash that out right now), working her way up from the clubs to worldwide fame, backed by the hottest band in the land.<\/p>\n

My feelings about the various and sundry modern acts working the classic style have wavered between indifference and pure joy, but I can assure that Miss Sharon Jones brought nothing but the latter.<\/p>\n

I was never fortunate enough to see her and the Dap-Kings live, but their recorded work has brought me much pleasure over the years.<\/p>\n

The two tracks I bring you today are longtime favorites of mine.<\/p>\n

The first is Jones reworking of Bettye Lavette\u2019s<\/strong> 1968 arrangement of Mickey Newbury\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> \u2018Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)\u2019*.<\/p>\n

Released in 2004, it is a smoking take on the song (taking it just a touch faster than Lavette) , with Jones singing beautifully all the way through.<\/p>\n

The second is a duet with another soul survivor, Lee Fields<\/strong> (Jones was discovered singing backup on a Fields session), and as a perfect example of \u2018revivalist\u2019 soul that meets and exceeds the quality of the music from the classic era.<\/p>\n

\u2018Stranded In Your Love\u2019 (which appeared on the 2005 album \u2018Naturally\u2019), is an epic (nearing 6 minutes) duet that starts out with a little spoken back and forth between Jones and Fields, but then drops down into a deep, deep number.<\/p>\n

The singing, playing (by the Dap-Kings) and the song itself (beautifully written by Gabriel Roth<\/strong>) are simply remarkable.\u00a0Had this record come out in 1968 in a limited run of 500 copies, modern day collectors would be killing each other to get a copy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of those records that I absolutely need to listen to more than once when I put it on. It hits all of those pleasure centers in the brain, and is a reminder of just how good soul music can be.<\/p>\n

There is so much painful irony in the fact that Sharon Jones was taken from us just when she was reaching her peak, but sometimes that\u2019s how it is.<\/p>\n

We can be thankful that she left behind so much great music.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She will be missed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

See you on Friday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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*Listed on Newbury\u2019s album as \u2018Just Dropped In\u2019, Lavette\u2019s 45 as \u2018What Condition My Condition Was In\u2019, on the First Edition hit with the parenthetical phrase, and on the Sharon Jones 45 without parentheses\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Miss Sharon Jones Listen\/Download – Sharon Jones – Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In MP3 Listen\/Download – Sharon Jones, Lee Fields and the Dap-Kings – Stranded In Your Love MP3 Greetings all. This has been an exceptionally tough couple of weeks (this is the fourth memorial post in a row). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,145,11,14,67,130,12,18],"tags":[163,166,164],"class_list":["post-6801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-songs","category-deep-soul","category-funk","category-funky16corners","category-obituary","category-sister-funk","category-soul","category-soul-45","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1LH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6803,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/6803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}