Rootdown celebrates James Brown
by Music Man Miles
This Thursday May 3rd the Rootdown soundsystem & friends are gathering to celebrate the birthday of James Brown by spinning the Soul Brother #1 & his funky family of various JBs incarnations & many more artists the godfather of soul developed & produced.
Although rhythm & blues was his foundation & artists like Little Willie John & all the New Orleans RnB foundation music is the true source of James Brown's style, it is likely that the sub culture of funk music in particular would not have developed quite in the way it did both creatively & in the popular culture of the world had it not been for James' vision of emphasizing that back beat & syncopation on the drums. No doubt drummer Clyde "the funky drummer " Stubblefield & the rest of JB's drum stable is a major part of what became funk from rhythm & blues.
There would likely not be any of the hip hop, disco-funk & classic dance soul floor music as we know it were it not for James Brown & his family of funk & we are going to run down JB's sounds all night long on the ONE at the newly opened Virgil bar (formerly Little Temple).
DJS MUSICAN MAN MILES, EXPO, JEDI, ERVIN ARANA
Special guests INKA ONE (boombox) ADRIAN YOUNGE (Bridges)
@THE VIRGIL 4519 Santa Monica Blvd (formerly Little Temple)
Doors 9pm-2am | 21+ | Free b4 11pm with rsvp@rootdownclub.com/$5 after
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James Brown's power and influence stretched far beyond the music medium documented here in "The Night James Brown Saved Boston" performance twenty-four hours post MLK assassination.
