So I had my RDA of fail this week. Sometime on Sunday, I remembered that I'd forgotten to buy tix for last night's Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings show. Went to purchase same only to discover that the show was very much sold out. Trés fail. As a small effort to make up for the loss, we watched Standing in the Shadows of Motown, the documentary about the Funk Brothers, who were the house band for Motown in the 60s. Excellent movie with lots of good stories and (of course) lots of good music. Early on, they talk to a bunch of people shopping in a record store and none of them have any idea who the musicians were on all those great Motown hits. And I remember having the same reaction the first time I read about this movie (or it might have been the book on which the movie was based). I had no idea that there was just one band playing for all those different singers. For a doc that's all about a group of artists who never really got the recognition they deserved (several of whom died before the movie was finished), it's actually surprisingly upbeat. One of my favorite stories is about a night when they were playing a gig at some jazz or blues club in Detroit and the owner tried to stiff them out of their pay. And then the guns started coming out. Trust me, it's a lot funnier than that makes it sound.

In other, sadder, music news, the great Lena Horne died last weekend. Here's a nice photo essay. Sarah's planning a tribute to Lena Horne for this Sunday's Divaville Lounge, Sunday 2-4pm on WXDU, 88.7fm in Durham or listen online at the XDU website.