James Brown was blowing the mic out from the first note of his first single. As raw as a begging suitor’s scraped knees, this descendant of the Orioles’ “Baby Please Don’t Go” set the pattern for JB’s ...

Album: Live at the Apollo Year: 1962 Standout lyric: "You've got to live for yourself / Yourself and nobody else" Early James Brown doesn't get any better than "I'll Go Crazy." From the backup ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first wrote about James Brown, I thought I’d covered enough ground with the big hits—the songs everyone knows and loves. But not long after that article went live, I started ...

"This is the biggest thing I've ever done in my whole career," the Dutch producer says of his rework of Brown's 1971 classic. By Katie Bain In October of 1971, Godfather of Soul James Brown clocked ...