329 - James Brown - In the Jungle Groove - Matt Richards
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EPISODE SUMMARY:
Soul Brother No. 1. Mr. Dynamite. The Hardest Working Man in Show Business. You don't have as long a career, with as many celebratory appellations as James Brown for no reason. Era after era, album after album, hit after hit, The Godfather of Soul has made an indelible mark on music, and even invented the genre we know today as funk. The 1986 compilation album In the Jungle Groove is the perfect retrospective for how much influence Brown has had on the world, which comedian and magician Matt Richards has understood since childhood.
SHOW NOTES:
01:00 - Intro
05:45 - The hardest working man in showbiz
15:15 - Secular music
24:15 - The story so far
36:00 - Where’s the through-line?
41:15 - Fucked over
55:30 - Facts!
1:02:30 - You better make it funky
1:07:45 - Lightning round
1:11:45 - Outro/New music
Check out the music history of this album here.