Excerpt at Billboard from a new book about the Dap-Kings and Daptone Records. Intro snippet:
"It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records & The 21st-Century Soul Revolution... tells the story of the iconic Daptone label, and the international revivalist funk/soul scene it helped inspire in the 2000s and beyond. Here, in a passage from the book, author Jessica Lipsky takes us through how the label's house band, the Dap-Kings, came to play on one of the most beloved albums of the 21st century -- Amy Winehouse's 2006 LP Back to Black -- and the impact, both good and bad, that the soul-pop set's success had on the Daptone family...."
"It Ain't Retro"?
The title invites rejoinders along the line of...
"You sure about that?"
"Pull the other one, mate!"
"If Dap-Kings ain't retro, then who, pray, qualifies?"
"Oh but it is, it most assuredly is"
and so on...
Appearances can be deceiving but in this case... it is what is says on the tin
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