Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Give The People What They Want (LP)

Tracklist:

A1 Retreat!
A2 Stranger To My Happiness
A3 We Get Along
A4 You'll Be Lonely
A5 Now I See

B1 Making Up And Breaking Up (And Making Up And Breaking Up Over Again)
B2 Get Up And Get Out
B3 Long Time, Wrong Time
B4 People Don't Get What They Deserve
B5 Slow Down, Love

Label: Daptone
Catalog: DAP-032

While other artists have ridden the crests and troughs of passing fads, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings have bypassed the hype-and-hit superhighway and taken a detour straight to the hearts and bodies of their listeners, transcending fleeting trends and demographics and delivering a visceral rhythm and soul sound to an ever-expanding base of deeply loyal fans. Give the People What They Want is poised to become not only an iconic album from a prolific band, but a fixture in the canon of Soul Music.

The album lifts off with “Retreat!," an up-tempo stomper with ominous, thundering arrangements, and marches directly into the pulsing Detroit-flavored soul of "Stranger To My Happiness" before easing back down into the mellow feel-good anthem “We Get Along”. Track after track, Give the People What They Want delivers every bit of the unbridled soul and studio acumen that defines this bands’ universally loved sound. “The entire Daptone Family is overjoyed and inspired to see Sharon’s recovery,” says the band’s bassist and bandleader Bosco Mann. “Without a doubt, this album is the greatest thing we’ve ever recorded and I’ve been anxious for the world to hear it. Everything will culminate in February at the Beacon. That moment when Sharon walks out to join us on stage again is going to be insane.”