Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
June 21 @ Rio Grande Park – Downtown Aspen
In the mid-1990s, a band called the Soul Providers began recording an album of instrumentals inspired by James Brown – which is the key, because there is a very special place in the musical heavens for James Brown. We tend to think of him as the hardest working man in show business, but what he did as musical director of his band – the unique and extraordinary fusion of nasty bass, jazz, blues, R & B that became known as funk – that special creation has spread through American music ever since “Please, Please, Please.” The Dap-Kings are about extending that legacy. As they recorded, they found out that their backup singer, Sharon Rogers, was the real deal. Among other moments of inspired madness, they recorded the old Kenny Rogers hit, “I Just Dropped In (to see What Condition by Condition was In,” and began what is going to be a very long, very successful career. Funk lives. At the Dap-King’s house.
Discography
 Dap Dippin (2002) |
 Naturally (2005) |
