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THE 5OTH GREATEST RECORDS AND ALBUMS OF MY LIFETIME: #49 - THE INFLUENCE OF JAMES BROWN
This video is #49 in my series called "THE 50th GREATEST RECORDS & ALBUMS OF MY LIFETIME. Music is a very special part of my life and since I was a kid I can remember how certain music and artists and events helped to shape my life. I have begun documenting the top 50 musical "events" whether they're albums, records, concerts, or those things that I can remember that has stood with me throughout my lifetime. And this music still stays with me to this day.
“SOUL BROTHER NUMBER ONE” is the name that James Brown is most known as, and for good reason. Another moniker that Brown was known as was “the hardest working man in Show Business.” James Brown, arguably the “father of the funk”, is widely referred to as one of the greatest entertainers in American music history and the most sampled artist in hip-hop history. James Brown has over 800 recorded songs and has influenced music genres and artists from rock, soul, jazz, R&B and hip-hop. For me growing up, the sounds of James Brown permeated throughout my house from early years. His influence on me began to cement itself when I was 7 or 8 years old (1969-1970), when my father, who was at that time a drummer in a successful local R&B band in Winston-Salem, NC, was listening to Brown as an influence for his drumming and rhythm skills. I would listen to those James Brown records over and over again, and when I saw him on TV, I began to memorize and copy his dance moves also. As I grew up, I learned how Brown was a man, how he influenced the black community and helped us to stand up and unite. Throughout my life, I always looked to Brown as one of the most strongest, smartest and special black men I knew. During my early years listening to Brown, loving his music and his place as a strong black man in society, were important to me and helped me grow up and respect him as an artist and and as black man. That’s why he’s #49 on my list of the 50th Greatest Records, Albums..and Artists...of my lifetime. A true cultural hero.
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