James Brown - The CD Of JB: Sex Machine and Other Soul Classics - Remastered (1985) FLAC

"Soul Brother Number One," "The Godfather of Soul," "The Hardest
Working Man in Show Business," "Mr. Dynamite" - those are mighty
titles, but no one can question that James Brown earned them more
than any other performer. Other singers were more popular, others
were equally skilled, but few other musicians were so influential
over the course of popular music.

And no other musician put on a more exciting, exhilarating stage
show: Brown's performances were marvels of athletic stamina and
split-second timing. Through the gospel-impassioned fury of his
vocals and the complex polyrhythms of his beats, Brown was a crucial
midwife in not just one, but two revolutions in American music; he
was one of the figures most responsible for turning R&B into soul
and he was, most would agree, the one figure most responsible for
transforming soul music into funk.

Fittingly, his music became even more influential as it aged, since
his voice and rhythms were sampled on innumerable hip-hop
recordings, and critics belatedly hailed his innovations as among
the most important in all of rock or R&B.