The spectacular performances of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings are always preceded by the announcement: 'Ladies and gentlemen, it's Soul Time!'. This promise is invariably fulfilled with the songs that can be heard on Jones' albums on the one hand and steaming grooves that were not heard on her CDs until recently, but only on the b-sides of her singles or as a previously unreleased track on a
… compilation CD. With Soul Time! however, that will change. Many songs such as I'm Not Gonna Cry and What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes?, Where the emphasis is on the groove, have finally been brought together and ensure that this in-between-night is actually the most swinging CD by Sharon Jones & The Dap. -Kings is. (AD)more
