Tales From the Tour Bus: James Brown (Part 2)

Welcome back to the epic tale of the hardest working man in show business.We left it last time with James Joseph Brown belting out anthems to a divided nation. In 1968, his brand of funk reigned supreme.Those who knew him in the early years always described James Brown as a man of discipline no drugs, no drinking to excess.Well, the young James Brown might have had a bit of a problem with the older version.Whether it was fame, heartache, or hubris, soul brother number one began a slow descent into a kind of intoxicated existence that he found so contemptible in others.

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