Date: 1986
Release: POLYDOR #829 417-2
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James Brown invented Funk with a capital F, and remains the unchallenged Godfather, the Funky President, Soul Brother #1. The world moves to the beat of a different drummer since he has busted his infamous moves across the planet’s surface. The JB cannon represents a vast catalogue of recordings—the mother lode of beats— a righteously funky legacy of grooves for us to soak in, sample, and quote.
James Brown’s Funky People compiles some of the best side-project recordings he made with his band, the JBs, during their early ’70s reign. It was a time when the funk was still young, before disco beats and over zealous producers conspired to gum up the Sex Machine with too much cheese and not enough soul. All tracks were originally recorded on James Brown‘s own People Records label in the early ’70s. Technically speaking, this is not an actual James Brown album, in so far as he is not the featured vocalist on any of the tracks.
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