Download:
(Title Track)
http://worlds-fair.net/media/sharon_jon ... Nights.mp3
I realize this leaked a very long time ago...but it was officially released on 10/2. Go pick it up, pretty great record.
More info:
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Sharon Jones was born Sheron Lafaye Jones in Augusta, Georgia on May 4th 1956. Her mother moved to Brooklyn soon thereafter, however Jones was sent down south for a few months every year to stay with her family. As a child, she and her brothers would imitate the songs and dances of James Brown, who shared their hometown. Like many rhythm and blues entertainers, she began performing in church at a very young age where her voice would find a lifelong home and inspiration. As a teenager in the early nineteen seventies, she began singing outside of the church in talent shows and with local funk groups. Later she would make her living with a combination of sporadic session work as a mostly anonymous voice on various dance records (sometimes credited as Lafaye Jones), singing with wedding bands, and a handful of day jobs which included stints as both a prison guard at New Yorkגs notorious Rikerגs Island, and an armored car guard for Wells Fargo Bank. In 1996 she was called in to sing back-up at a Desco Records studio session for 70גs soul legend Lee Fields.
Desco was a small independent specializing in traditional funk and soul pressed exclusively to wax. Co-owners and producers Phillip Lehman and Bosco גBassג Mann had called Jones in on a tip from a sax player who was seeing her at the time. As the other two girls never showed up for the session, Jones cut all the background parts for the session herself, and proceeded to cut the impromptu prison rap over Switchblade, which had originally been intended for a man. Ironically, that rant (slowed down to make it sound like a man) would be her first outing as a featured artist on a record. Though she was at first skeptical of the 21 year-old jewish kid egging her on from the other side of the glass, a common love and respect for Soul music soon created a trust and friendship between Jones and Mann which would lead them both to a fruitful career.
Over the next four years, Jones sang frequently alongside Lee Fields, Joseph Henry, and Naomi Davis as part of the Desco Super Soul Revue backed by Desco house band the Soul Providers. Desco would release a handful of singles in her name including The Bump & Touch, Damn Itגs Hot, and You Better Think Twice as well as versions of funk classics I Got the Feelinג and Hook & Sling. In the UK, a blossoming Deep Funk scene lead by DJגs Keb Darge and Snowboy among others showed support for these Desco releases and paved the way for Jones and the Soul Providersג first international tour in 1999, where her command of the stage earned her an overnight title as the גQueen of Funkג.
Unfortunately, just as the Jones and the band began to gain momentum and a reputation for a show that couldnגt be missed, internal business conflicts caused the demise of Desco Records in the early part of 2000. Though the Soul Providers would not perform again, it wasnגt long before Jones and Mann would regroup in another formation.
Guitarist Binky Griptite, would remain at Mannגs side as well as organist Earl Maxton, percussionist Fernando גBoogalooג Velez, trumpeter Anda גGoodfootג Szilagyi and Baritone saxophonist Jack Zapata (AKA Mart
