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Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings @ ACL 2008 - pics

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Sharon Jones @ ACL

Let’s face it, anyone who is going to style themselves “The Dap-Tone Super Soul Revue” had better be able to represent. Or, as Jones put it, “TES-tify and REC-tify.” After a JBs-style instrumental vamp and rave-up by the nattitly-attired Dap-Kings, Jones came shimmying out onstage, ushering in almost an hour of non-stop pyrotechnics onstage. Several times, Jones pulled audience members from the crowd or out of the wings to join her aerobics tutorial, but she really didn’t need the company. A soulful belter whose most obvious contemporaries are Bettye Levette and Irma Thomas, Jones sang convincingly of love and loss and the sorry, no-good so-and-sos responsible for both. [Austin360]

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Sharon Jones @ ACL

Sharon Jones @ ACL

Sharon Jones @ ACL

Sharon Jones @ ACL

Sharon Jones @ ACL

Sharon Jones @ ACL

Sharon Jones @ ACL

Sharon Jones @ ACL

Sharon Jones @ ACL

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Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – 2008 Tour Dates
Oct 26 – Voodoo Music Experience New Orleans, Louisiana
Oct 29 – Kool Haus Toronto, Ontario
Oct 30 – Olympia de Montreal Montreal, Quebec
Nov 1 – State Theater of Ithaca Ithaca, New York