The One

10 Mar

RJ Smith’s James Brown bio The One, out this week, reviewed here for the Wall Street Journal, is loaded: captivating background, hair-raising stories, and fascinating detail. I was thrilled to learn that at the end of his life, Brown had just a few albums at home, one of which was a Sax Kari production! No spoilers here. If you read The Chitlin’ Circuit and you read The One, you’ll recognize it instantly. Smith’s book is on the level of Peter Guralnick’s Elvis bio, and though I love the King, the Godfather is a more challenging, confrontational, artistically un-compromised man.

Here’s Sax promoting a the James Brown show in Atlanta in the late 1960s: 

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2 Responses to “The One”

  1. Etha Gray April 13, 2012 at 5:02 pm #

    Hi, Preston,
    I would like to invite you to check out my two eBooks: Odyssey of Courage and Sweet Daddy Red. They can be found at: http://www.smashwords.com

  2. Etha Gray April 13, 2012 at 5:04 pm #

    Forgot to mention that I still remember where I was when the ‘Napalm” incident happened.

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