James Brown joined his friend Bobby Byrd in a group that sang gospel in and around Toccoa, Georgia. After seeing Hank Ballard and Fats Domino in a blues revue, Byrd and Brown were lured into the realm ...

The hardest working man in music, James Brown ... but if you look at the song another way, through Brown’s penchant for fining his band members, it could be a smooth number daring them to ...

“It captures James Brown and his band at a very specific time in the evolution of his career. He had figured out how to perform in such a way that was going to win people over.” What Shows ...