James Brown - Original Funk Soul Brother (2000,Soul, 2CD 320)

James Brown stripped down his touring band somewhat in the early 1980s, streamlining it until the group served up the funk with a laser's precision and the propulsive force of an atomic steamroller. Hypnotic, powerful and the absolute template for the role of sex machine, Brown was one of the most dynamic stage performers in the history of pop music, and his band was so rehearsed and sharp that it could change directions with the simple dip of one of Brown's shoulders or the stomp of one of his boot heels, and to see this unit in concert was to fully realize that Brown's singles, electrifying as they were, didn't tell the half of it. This two-disc set combines two of Brown's '80s concerts, with disc one consisting of a 1980 date at Studio 54 in New York from 1980 and disc two featuring a gig at Chastain Park in Atlanta from 1984. There is some duplication in material, but it hardly matters, because when you're being plowed over again and again by a steamroller it probably isn't too important whether it's the same steamroller or not. This is Brown and the J.B.'s in their natural habitat, and while the sound quality here is ragged in spots, it never lacks energy and it punches like a heavyweight, even when things gear down for a moving version of "Georgia on My Mind." allmusic.com

Disc 1:
Recorded Live at Studio 54, New York, March 1980:

1. Gonna Have a Funky Good Time (Doing It to Death)
2. Get Up Offa That Thing
3. Body Heat
4. Sex Machine
5. Try Me
6. Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
7. Get on the Good Foot
8. Medley: Lost Someone
9. I Got the Feeling
10. Cold Sweat
11. Please, Please, Please [Live]
12. Jam
13. Medley: The Payback

Disc 2:
Recorded Live At Chastain Park, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1984
1. Introduction/Give It Up or Turn It Loose
2. It's Too Funky in Here
3. Doing It to Death
4. Try Me
5. Get on the Good Foot
6. Get Up Offa That Thing
7. Georgia on My Mind
8. Hot Pants [Live]
9. I Got the Feelin'
10. It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World
11. Cold Sweat
12. I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)
13. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag

Ladies n gents, this one im droppin today is needless to despribe... Soul King the Godfather of Soul James Brown performing live... Get this while its up.

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