This single is available in this brilliant CD collection: Funky Good Time: Anthology. It’s also available in this MP3 collection: Funky Good Time: The Anthology. Another sure-shot on the People label. Can you do the Camel Walk?
Yearly Archives: 2011
This single is available in this CD collection: Singles 6: 1969-1970. And this MP3 collection: The Singles Volume Six: 1969-1970. Deep low down dirty funk from 1969. Everybody was copping the sound of funk but JB and the band were refining the sound and making it as sharp as a […]
1969 King 45: I Don’t Want Nobody To ...
This album is available on vinyl reissue here: Reality(LP vinyl). JB brings not only the funk but a good dose of consiousness in this brilliant mid 70s record. The orchestration adds a dreaminess to the lush James Brown production. Funky President is worth the admission price alone, but the whole album […]
1975 Polydor LP: Reality
You can get this single in this must have CD collection: Funky Good Time: Anthology. It’s also available in this MP3 collection: Funky Good Time: The Anthology. The funk don’t get more uncut than this. In ’73 the funk was starting to show up all over the place, but JB […]
1973 People 45: James Brown & the J.B.’s ...
This LP is available on vinyl reissue: For Sweet People From Sweet Charles [Vinyl LP] [Stereo]. Sweet funk, sweet soul and sweet R&B from the great Sweet Charles aka Charles Sherell. A regular in the JB stable of artists as a musician as well as a singer. This is the […]
1974 People LP: Charles Sherell – For Sweet ...
This single is available in this CD collection: Singles 4: 1966-1967. It’s also available in this MP3 collection: Singles 4: 1966-1967. More pure uncut flow from the fathers of FUNK; JB and his band.
1967 King 45: Get It Together (Part 1)/Get ...
The single, We Want to Parrty…, is available in this killer CD collection: Mama Feelgood: The Best of. An MP3 of it is available here: We Want To Parrty, Parrty, Parrty, Part 1 & 2. Lyn Collins always turned the heat up even higher on top of the J.B.’s funky beats. […]
1973 People 45: Lyn Collins – We Want ...
This single is available as MP3 here: Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses). JB made several great recordings on the TK label. This is one of them.
1980 TK Records 45: Rapp Payback (Where Iz ...
Pull over Beethoven!! JB still killing it in 1980, as is the band. Jimmy Nolen on blistering guitar. Nolen, who played with JB until he passed away in ’83, was one of the founding fathers of funk. His influence on modern music remains unsung. Dig that funky hat on JB! […]
Rapp Payback live in 1980
Most of the tracks on this LP are available in this must have CD collection of JB instrumentals: Soul Pride: Instrumentals. It’s also available on vinyl reissue here: James Brown – Grits & Soul LP. An R&B, blues and soul filled instrumental LP from JB and his band. […]
1964 Smash LP Grits & Soul
This single is available in the following CD collection: Singles 5: 1967-1969. Also available in this MP3 collection: The Singles Volume 5: 1967-1969. Let’s Unite the Whole World is a soul filled xmas jam. In the Middle is an instrumental. Deep hard funk at it’s best. Realize that this is […]
1968 King 45: Let’s Unite the Whole World ...
This single is available in this CD collection: Singles 10: 1975-1979. It”s also available in this MP3 collection: The Singles Vol.10 (1975-1979). A great funky jam from the late 70s. JB still was killing it after over 25 years in the music biz.