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Sharon Jones "Soul Sister Number One"

She, I do not know why I have not spoken before, much less why I had foolishly forgotten when setting my best of the 2000s. I really am a bad girl. This was particularly unfortunate that I had seen him live at Nancy Jazz Pulsations there are three or four years and I had taken a monumental slap. Repair the outrage.

The title of his latest album, "I Learned The Hard Way" sounds like a confession, Sharon Jones shit. During all these years of purgatory to bide his time, to be told by managers that label was "too small, too fat, too black and too old," she tried the most improbable day jobs: guardian prison to Rikers Island, conveyor funds to Wells Fargo ("I wore a 38. I was a good shooter). In 1996, Gabriel Roth, a young producer from New York soul, now boss of the label Daptone Records (Remember the name: it is becoming a magic formula in future years), three singers looking for a session recording with Lee Fields (also from veteran soul Daptone Records). Sharon Jones decides to give us a Keith Moon. She tells him, bully, he can turn two: "I can do all three voices myself. Thou shalt save money and I'll win again". Roth is in love and decides up a project around it, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, where he held the bass. All this confirms the obvious: if you want to sing the suffering he must have suffered.

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings are hands on a raw debut album ("Dap Dippin 'With The Dap Kings) but which inadequately guns away from orthodoxy funk to be really totally amiable. Things improved considerably with the second album, crossed by a Brownian funk still at times ("Your Thing Is A Drag," "My Man Is A Mean Man"), but also wonders more surprising, including an unbelievable version of "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie (proof once again of bridges between black music, folk and country), a hilarious duet with Lee Fields, his now colleague Daptone Records ( stranded in your love ") and generally in the groove you want, here's ( " how long do I Have to Wait For You "," all over again, "how do I let a good man down" ). But it was really with "100 Days, 100 Nights" they explode. It must be said with bombs (or almost all composed by Roth) as " keep on looking," "Tell Me", "answer me", "100 Days, 100 Nights " they persisted in confidentiality would have been a pretty fucking scandal. They flowing 150,000 copies, which is an excellent score for an indie label (to give a token, the first Mgmt has sold 2 million copies, which was laughable even 10 years ago) .

With "I Learned The Hard Way" They continue on their merry way, with a total control, they dig in her girls group (" give it back ') in the ultra-orchestrated soul (and even a little firefighter on" the game gets old ") or that they give a Favorites grounds of gender, cheatin soul ("I Learned The Hard Way"), each time, it's ideal. Never anything superfluous. It's concise, taut, sophisticated, and it kicks ass ("She Is not child no more" ). As for Jones, she is supreme. We spoke openly about her as a "female James Brown." Some call also "soul sister number one." I must say that being born as James big in Augusta, Georgia, comparison of herself. But at a time when some of us are trying to get Colin Bailey Rae for a new Minnie Ripperton , these might seem overly flattering compliments. And well absolutely not.

A James Brown so feminine. This is not true. We find in it these authoritarian ways to request a break, those "wait a minute" wait, this spectacular scene incandescent common Godfather of Soul. It also has its ferocity. We also find it in the humorous banter of Millie Jackson ("money"). The dap kings, I do not have much to say except that he is probably the best soul-funk band since the heyday of the JB's and Meters . They sound great. It is to them that Winehouse has her "Back to Black" (interviewed in 2007 on the latter, Jones went out fangs: "they jumped On Our car!" . Remember that Amy Winehouse, among two courses of rehab fail nevertheless wrote 2.3 huge songs. If it was a simple forgery, we would know)

Let's be clear: There is no servility home, just love a taste for black music of the big time. And let no one tell me about vintage, just the word evokes the old Ikea furniture purchased by God knows who. Confuse authenticity with the picturesque easy, it's not the kind I see in its exoticism, that is to say, being a tourist. It is not whether it's old school "The question is not here. Roth says it well: "We Do not Have a retro approach. We are not referencing old music. We do not fetish-ize equipment vintage gold afro wigs, gold bell-bottoms. Our music sounds authentic Because It Is authentic. It's real people making real music. From the Depths of Our Souls. From our heart of hearts. When it's real, You Do not Have to Worry About That "any of" retro revival like "kind of shit." much for the vintage. Moreover, even lorqu'on praises "authenticity" of a soulman, it looks suspicious to me: What is a soulman "authentic"? A black Atlanta or New Orleans? This is not the extraction is important is the degree of faith, aggressiveness with which we embrace the trick. Sharon Jones does not push the tradition she beats her at his own game it crushes with her big black ass.

The truest thing about Sharon Jones was told by the magazine Refresh "In the tradition of the great soul diva, the great Sharon Jones is one that suggests that legends are created yet." Exactly; It is not emulating anyone. It posits itself as a new reference level Mavis Staple s , Aretha Franklin and, of Etta James , all these brilliant predecessors. And today is that it happens; we do not realize what a miracle this girl, you do not realize that we are all very lucky.

Sharon Jones: One of the best reasons to live in 2010 that can be found. With the films of James Gray , Philip Roth, Richard Hawley, Jiro Taniguchi, Lea Seydoux and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Vianney G.