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James Brown – Live At Home With His Bad Self (Remastered – 2019 Mix) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:02 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor

October 1, 1969, in Augusta, GA, was a homecoming for James Brown. His and his band’s smoking performance at the city’s Bell Auditorium was captured on tape, with an intention to make an album of the show the cornerstone of a move back to his roots. Live at Home With His Bad Self was scheduled as a lucrative holiday release. But JB and that band broke up. Soul Brother No. 1 called in a new, young band, featuring Bootsy Collins, and within a few weeks they recorded the funk anthem ‘Sex Machine.’ With the single flying up the charts and no album to promote along with it, JB scrapped the planned Live at Home album. He instead doubled down on a Sex Machine album, a part-live 2LP set that included a portion of the Augusta show. Now, finally, as James Brown intended: the full show with his celebrated ’60s band. Live at Home With His Bad Self arrives on its 50th anniversary newly mixed with seven unreleased performances that even include two actual live instrumentals, ‘Lowdown Popcorn’ and ‘Spinning Wheel,’ that were on the original LP in studio recordings with fake applause. The package includes an essay by former James Brown tour manager and publicist Alan Leeds, a Grammy-winner who is also the co-producer of the album.
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James Brown – Good, Good, Twistin’ (1962/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 30:30 minutes | 283 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music Manager

Good, Good, Twistin’ is a compilation album by American musician James Brown and The Famous Flames. It consists of tracks from his first four studio albums, in addition to his recent single “Shout and Shimmy” and the previously unreleased “Have Mercy Baby”. The album was released in 1962, by King Records. The album was later reissued under the title Shout and Shimmy.[3] While some songs feature The original Flames, the longest lasting Flames lineup, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Bennett, and Lloyd Stallworth , are featured on four songs: “Shout and Shimmy”, (and it’s “B” side “Come Over Here” ), “Good Good Lovin”, and “I Don’t Mind.
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James Brown – 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! (1991/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:10:33 minutes | 2,68 GB | Genre: Funk, R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor

While Brown’s 30-track, 40-track, and even 50-track collections are excellent choices as well, this fine hits package is the best one for Brown neophytes looking for a way in. Covering his prime stretch from the late ’50s through the early ’70s, 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! includes early R&B milestones (“Please, Please, Please”), epochal ’60s sides (“Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, Pt. 1”), and latter-day funk classics (“Papa Don’t Take No Mess, Pt. 1”). And that’s not to mention such perennials as “Mother Popcorn,” “Hot Pants,” “Cold Sweat,” and “Think.” Start your Brown obsession here. ~ Stephen Cook
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James Brown – 20 All-Time Greatest Hits! (1991/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:33 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Polydor

20 All-Time Greatest Hits! features 20 songs from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, 16 of which had previously topped the US R&B charts. The album itself reached #99 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart when it was first released in 1991, and has been ranked #414 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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