Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way I Learned The Hard Way the record drips with a

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

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

Soul of a Woman features eleven songs which reveal that the emotion

Mainly because it's a record that transcends genre specific qualifiers and rhetoric that pigeonhole many albums

and hip-hop seep into their expansive works to define a truly 21st century translation of the Afrobeat genre and beyond

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way I Learned The Hard Way the record drips with aI 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