The James Brown Reader

The James Brown ReaderBy: Nelson George and Alan Leeds have assembled the first comprehensive collection of writings about the late, great Godfather of Soul, creating a fascinating mosaic of the man and the musician. Known as the hardest working man in show business, James Brown embodied rhythm and blues, funk and soul, and sensuality. His musical innovations in such indelible grooves as Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, I Got You (I Feel Good), and Papas Got a

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loneliness and family that is unflinching in its honesty and power

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The body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-old named Mike Webster

Romantically and musically

But as graduation and the dance approaches

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From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic

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full of touch-and-feel

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