15% of Sales to be Donated to Doctors Without Borders
Fans Quick to Order to Receive Freebies
"It’s hard, maybe even impossible to upstage Sharon Jones, who fights her way through I Learned the Hard Way and channels the drama boldly and candidly." – Pitchfork
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I Learned The Hard Way, the highly anticipated new album from Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings is now available for pre-ordering direct from Daptone Records.
The band and label are proud to announce that 15-percent of all pre-order sales from Daptone’s online store will be donated to Doctors Without Borders' Emergency Relief Fund, which will directly contribute to relief efforts in Haiti.
And making this even more special for SJDK fans are special offers for those among the first to pre-order the album. The first 1000 orders of the CD or LP will receive a FREE bonus 45 rpm single featuring the track "When I Come Home" (unreleased from the I Learned The Hard Way sessions) plus an instrumental b-side. The first 100 orders of the LP will be autographed, and all LP copies will come with a coupon to download the entire album in high-quality MP3 format. In addition, ALL pre-orders will arrive to the consumer at least one day before the official street date of April 6.
Fans can go here to purchase the album in the format of their choosing.
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. From the lush Philly Soul fanfare that ushers in "The Game Gets Old" at the top of the record to the stripped down Sam Cooke-style "Mama Don’t Like My Man" at the tail, the Dap-Kings dance seamlessly through both the most crafted and simple arrangements with subtlety and discipline. I Learned The Hard Way is the "Daptone Sound" at it's finest.
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