My pal Alethea and I started talking about James Brown today. She reminded me that the Godfather had died on Christmas Day back in 2006. I rambled on about a chance encounter in an ex-pat bar in Moscow, where some impertinent so and so had the gall to mock Brown’s music and transcendent talent. A bit later that night I walked out into cold, cold Moscow and got stopped by the militsia: better than listening to someone run down a genius. Anywho. In 2010 Dan Reeder did quite right by JB when he recorded the deeply soulful, gospel-inflected “James Brown is Dead and Gone.”
Dan Reeder - James Brown is Dead and Gone [emusic]
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