Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown‘s one-time drummer and the ... The cause of death was kidney failure. “The Funky Funkiest Drummer Of All Time,” Questlove wrote on Saturday.

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- When it comes to soul music, few artists can top the contributions or influence of James Brown ... learn," the 67-year-old Brown said recently. "'Funky' is about what it ...

If there’s one James Brown song that has shaped modern music, it’s “Funky Drummer.” Released in 1970, this track is most ...

But he’s best known for accidentally changing the course of hip-hop in 1970—before the genre even existed—with a short drum break on a James Brown song called “Funky Drummer.” ...

When James Brown passed away in 2006 ... syncopated single-note guitar line and drummer Clyde Stubblefield's intense issuing of his classic ‘Funky Drummer’-style groove.

George “Funky” Brown, the drummer, founding member and one of the ... his brother Ronald Bell on tenor and lead vocalist James “J.T.” Taylor, was one of the songwriters in a band with ...

He joined James Brown's backing band in 1965 ... as the pattern he'd played on 1970's "Funky Drummer" proved irresistible to producers. The track's distinctive break, a sixteenth beat punctuated ...

More than five minutes into the recording, James Brown tells his band that he wants “to give the drummer some of this funky soul we got going here.” He tells Stubblefield, “You don’t have ...

Clyde Stubblefield, a drummer for James Brown who created one of ... But he was best known for a short solo on Brown’s 1970 single, “Funky Drummer.” Rolling Stone magazine said it was ...