The Album: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings 100 Days, 100 Nights (2007)

On the occasion of our 100th episode, we decided to devote a Host’s Choice episode to talking about the breakout 2007 album from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. Coming out hot on the heels of Amy Winehouse’s best-selling Back to Black (2007) which featured the Dap-Kings horn section, 100 Days, 100 Nights made it clear who the queen (and kings) of the retro-soul sound was. As their third album, that latest LP showcased the group’s growing prowess as songwriters and Jones was in top form with a voice able to bring heft and spark to the group’s stylings on Southern soul, uptempo funk and deep gospel.

Morgan and Oliver are mostly excited to have made it to #100 and we wanted to thank all our listeners, guests and producers for their support of our show over its first two years. Here’s to 100 more!

More on 100 Days, 100 Nights

• She's Not Anybody's Backup Act (The New York Times)
• Tiny Mixtape's review of 100 Days, 100 Nights
• Gabriel Roth's Shitty is Pretty essay

Show Tracklisting (all songs from 100 Days, 100 Nights unless indicated otherwise):

• 100 Days, 100 Nights
• Nobody's Baby
• Amy Winehouse: He Can Only Hold Her
• Solange: I Decided, Part 1
• Raphael Saadiq: 100 Yard Dash
• Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: She Aint A Child No More
• Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Stranded In Your Love
• Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: All Over Again
• Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Cut That Line
• Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: Window Shopping
• Amy Winehouse: You Know I'm No Good
• The Poets of Rhythm: More Mess On My Thing
• Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators: If This Ain't Love (Don't Know What Is)
• Repercussions: A Gentle Kind of Love
• Repercussions: Let's Do It Again
• Alice Russell: Somebody's Gonna Love You
• Mayer Hawthorne: Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
• Durand Jones & the Indications: Can't Keep My Cool
• Saun & Starr: Big Wheel
• Keep On Looking
• Let Them Knock
• 100 Days, 100 Nights
• Otis Day & The Knights: Shout
• Tell Me
• When The Other Foot Drops, Uncle
• LeAndria Johnson: I Couldn't Have Done It
• Answer Me
• Thee Lakesiders: Parachute
• Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: All Over Again
• James Ingram: One Hundred Ways

Here is the Spotify playlist of as many songs as we can find there If you're not already subscribed to Heat Rocks in Apple Podcasts, do it here!