At the end of the seventies music was perched on the edge of the great fragmentation that would take hold in the eighties and especially the nineties – punk, funk, disco, pop all rubbed shoulders along with the first stirrings of hip-hop. It’s also the year Sony‘s Walkman would hit the market, revolutionizing the way [...]
Enjoy Bobby Byrd doing his cover Sam & Dave’s “Soul Man” in 1968…R.I.P.
Bobby Byrd 1934-2007 James Brown collaborator and friend Bobby Byrd died Wednesday in Atlanta. He was 73. Byrd was Johnnie Johnson to Brown’s Chuck Berry in some ways, inviting Brown into has nascent band The Famous Flames only to have Brown take it over with his dominating genius for songcraft and showmanship. Byrd stuck with [...]
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