Sharon Jones will celebrate her 54th birthday this coming May with the release of her group’s latest studio effort. Entitled I Learned the Hard Way, the disc is Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings follow-up to 2007’s 100 Days, 100 Nights. Once again Bosco Mann produced these sessions, which recorded on an Ampex eight-track tape machine by Gabriel Roth in Daptone Records’ House of Soul studios. For a bit more on the recording, which will hit on May 4, read our interview with Jones shortly after she guested with Phish on Halloween.

I Learned The Hard Way” Track Listing:

1. The Game Gets Old
2. I Learned The Hard Way
3. Better Things
4. Give It Back
5. Money
6. The Reason
7. Window Shopping
8. She Ain’t A Child No More
9. I’ll Still Be True
10. Without A Heart
11. If You Call
12. Mama Don’t Like My Man