JONES, Sharon & the Dap-Kings

Recorded at Daptone Records, House Of Soul. Released in 2007.

It is our distinct pleasure to present: Miss Sharon Jones! OST. The film, directed by two-time Academy Award winner, Barbara Kopple, follows the dynamic front-woman through her 2013 battle with cancer and her triumphant return to the stage around the release of Give The People What They Want.All...

Daptone Records predicts a heat wave that will continue clear into the next year. The forecast is high heat with periods of heavy soul claps. That’s right, BETTER THINGS, the hit song from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings’ album I Learned the Hard Way – has been melting dance floors across the...

Every November, just as we’ve got our rubber spiders and Ronald Reagan masks packed back into our sticky plastic pumpkins, we find ourselves inundated by “Holiday Music.” It hovers in every elevator, floats through every grocery store, and whines out of ever y receiver as we wait on hold with...

Over the years Daptone H.Q. has been flooded with suggestions and requests for certain album tracks to be available on 45, so we've pressed up a few that are consistently at the top of the heap. After its' original release on the Soul of a Woman album, "Come and be a Winner"'s mellow mid-tempo...