![]() As RJ explains, James Brown was all about the live experience. RJ's biography of Brown, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown, came out earlier this year. In honor of its fiftieth, Jim and Greg give Brown's Live at the Apollo a well-deserved Classic Album Dissection with help from music writer RJ Smith. It took Live at the Apollo - an album recorded fifty years ago last month on Brown's own dime- to catapult him onto the national stage. It's a sound that caught the attention of younger artists like Beth Orton and Devendra Banhart, and you can best hear it on the 1973 track " You’re Goin Miss Your Candyman." Live at the Apolloīefore he was America’s Godfather of Soul, James Brownwas the king of the South's segregated chitlin’ circuit. The Chicago native released a Chess Records debut in 1968, and went on to fuse folk with jazz and experimental music. ![]() Singer-songwriter Terry Callier never got the acclaim he deserved in the early part of his life, but as Greg explains, his influence was strong. Audio player Download Subscribe via iTunes Music News
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