Recorded on an eight-track tape machine, the music gives off a musk of enlightened toil. As is generally the case with a Daptone release, the album’s producer is Bosco Mann, the label founder and Dap-Kings bassist, who also goes by his real name, Gabriel Roth. The title doubles as a testimonial by Ms. “I Learned the Hard Way” is her fourth album with the Dap-Kings, and to say that it does nothing differently from its predecessors is essentially, among Daptone believers, high praise. As the voice of Daptone Records, Brooklyn’s own funk factory, she has devoted countless hours and an even greater share of kinetic energy to an evangelical task: the practice of a gritty, time-warped strain of R&B. The retro-soul queen Sharon Jones comes by her authority naturally, but that doesn’t mean she hasn’t worked for it.
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