A surprising and controversial ode to women, “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World” from 1966 showcases Brown’s softer side. A major hit and an iconic ballad in his discography, this song doesn’t boast the ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure ...

(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 ...

James Brown was the hardest working man in show business. Born on May 3, 1933, in Barnwell, South Carolina, Brown passed away on Christmas Day 2006 in Atlanta. In between, he changed music. Many of ...

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 ...

A previously unreleased single by Augusta musical legend James Brown is available for pre-order before its official release, according to the world’s largest music company. “We Got to Change” is a ...

Whenever there’s new music released by a long dead artist, it typically falls into two categories. The first, and most obvious, is that it’s simply not that great and there’s a clear reason why it was ...