Pitchfork

Get on the good foot: Brooklyn soul powerhouse Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings are hitting the road, jack, and won't come back until...well, until the tour is over.

Jones released Naturally to rave reviews earlier this year on funk revivalist label Daptone Records, following her 2002 cult hit Dap Dippin' With Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. Imagine a world where James Brown and Al Green LPs from 1968 were held as iconic templates from which all future music should be based, where analog production, horns and funky drums are the building blocks of life, and you'll get an idea of where Jones, a former prison guard, is coming from. Alternatively, you could take her word for it: "If you can't feel the music on this album, then you must be a dead ass!"

Jones and her crew are on the road right now, hitting a nice chunk of the Western Hemisphere, so get off your dead ass and groove:

9-30 Milwaukee, MN - Onopa Brewing Company
10-01 Chicago, IL - Double Door *
10-02 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
10-06 Glasgow, Scotland - Mixed Bizness at the Sub Club
10-07 Gateshead, England - The Sage
10-08 Manchester, England - The Roadhouse
10-10 London, England - The Jazz Café
10-11 London, England - The Jazz Café
10-12 Paris, France - Elysée Montmartre
10-13 Bristol, England - Seen Live at Fiddlers
10-15 Leeds, England - The Wardrobe
10-31 New York, NY - S.O.B.s (Halloween Funk 'n' Soul Revue)
11-10 Hamilton, Ontario - The Pepper Jack Café
11-11 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern
11-12 Toronto, Ontario - Horseshoe Tavern
11-13 Waterloo, Ontario - Starlight
11-15 Ottawa, Ontario - Babylon
11-16 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
11-17 Boston, MA - Middle East Underground
11-18 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse Music Hall

* with the Diplomats of Solid Sound

For even more dap dippin', pick up Jones' new 45, "How Do You Let a Good Man Down?" b/w "My Man Is a Mean Man", released last week on Daptone. It's way cheaper than hiring a relationship counselor.

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