Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings line up 2008 dates

Soul/funk singer Sharon Jones and her backing outfit, the Dap-Kings, have lined up an early year club tour to support their latest studio effort, "100 Days, 100 Nights."

The singer and her band kick off the year with a Jan. 3 show in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The tour visits 16 cities, mostly in the South, and runs into February, closing out with a pair of shows in Kentucky and Tennessee. All dates are below.

Released in August, "100 Days, 100 Nights" is the third full-length from Jones & the Dap-Kings, who serve as the house band for producer Gabriel Roth's Daptone Records. The album was cut in Daptone's fully analog Brooklyn recording studio.

The disc, which follows 2005's "Naturally" and 2002's "Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings," continues Daptone's effort to bring back the funk and soul sounds of the '60s and early '70s by channeling "the spirits of bygone powerhouses like Stax and Motown."

The Augusta, GA-born Jones spent most of her life out of the music business, working a variety of jobs that included corrections officer (at Sing Sing prison) and armored car driver for Wells-Fargo before a mid-life opportunity in 1996 providing backup vocals for soul singer Lee Fields led to her new career choice.