Jones, Sharon – I Learned The Hard Way

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New Vinyl Record – SharonJones – I Learned The Hard Way

2010 release, the fourth album from the Modern Soul heroine and her ace band. The record marks a bold step forward for a band who almost single-handedly stewarded today’s return of Soul music to it’s more traditional sound. I Learned the Hard Way was produced by Bosco Mann and recorded on an Ampex eight-track tape machine by Gabriel Roth in Daptone Records’ House of Soul studios, the record drips with a warmth and spontaneity rarely found since the golden days of Muscle Shoals and Stax. Sharon’s raw power, rhythmic swagger, moaning soulfulness, and melodic command set her firmly alongside Tina Turner, James Brown, Mavis Staples, and Aretha as a fixture in the canon of Soul music.

1The Game Gets Old
2I Learned the Hard Way
3Better Things
4Give It Back
5Money
6The Reason
7Window Shopping
8She Ain’t a Child No More
9I’ll Still Be True
10Without a Heart
11If You Call
12Mama Don’t Like My Man