Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings must be one of the hardest working bands in showbusiness. The group barely seems to be off the road, and here they are again, performing two songs for Jimmy Kimmel’s show from this year’s outstanding album, I Learned the Hard Way.
Jones is exactly the kind of frontwoman every band should crave—she works the stoic Kimmel crowd hard here as she begins the mid-paced soul groove of “Money” and continues the good work on “The Game Gets Old.” This stultifying studio environment isn’t the best forum to witness this music in, but Jones and her band offer a teaser of the sweat and passion you can expect when seeing the Dap-Kings in full flow at a proper venue.
