Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) has fans of the Godfather of Soul
covered for digital audio immersion. Seventeen remastered James Brown albums
and a digital box set, James Brown Live At The Apollo, Vols. I-IV, featuring
the previously unreleased fourth volume, are now available for the first time
for digital download purchase from all major digital service providers
worldwide. In addition, a playlist of James Brown songs featured in ‘Mr.
Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown,’ a new documentary about the soul superstar
directed by Oscar® winner Alex Gibney, has launched exclusively on Spotify
ahead of the film’s October 27 premiere on HBO.
The previously out-of-print
James Brown titles, including rare, influential instrumental albums long sought
after by fans, have never before been available for download purchase and
streaming. These vaulted treasures from Soul Brother No. 1 include the 1962
timepiece Good, Good Twistin' with James Brown (later re-released as Shout and
Shimmy); his 1964 releases for Smash Records, Showtime and Grits and Soul,
experiments in big-band and soul-jazz sounds that James Brown favored;
additional rare Smash albums Handful of Soul and James Brown Plays James Brown
Today and Yesterday; and the 1960s King sets Mighty Instrumentals, Plays
Nothing But Soul, the tribute album Thinking About Little Willie John and A Few
Nice Things and the sample-friendly Sho Is Funky Down Here. James Brown’s
latter-day albums from the late 1970s and early 1980s are also now available
digitally, including Hot, Everybody’s Doin’ The Hustle and Dead on the Double
Bump, Take A Look At Those Cakes, The Original Disco Man, Jam 1980s, People and
Nonstop!
Also available is a digital
box set, James Brown Live At The Apollo Vols. 1-IV. The newly-compiled digital
set features Brown’s three best-selling live albums – Live At The Apollo 1962,
Live At The Apollo Vol. II, Revolution Of The Mind: Live At The Apollo Vol. III
– as well as a previously unreleased fourth Apollo recording, Get Down With
James Brown Live at the Apollo Vol. IV, featuring two performances from Brown
plus unreleased tracks by his band The J.B.’s and Revue members Lyn Collins and
Bobby Byrd. Vol. IV makes its worldwide debut within the set.
UMe has also released several
James Brown albums on vinyl: GET ON UP: The James Brown Story (Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack), featuring songs heard in the Universal Pictures feature
film, including two previously unreleased, scorching live performances, and the
best-seller 20 All-Time Greatest Hits!, each making their vinyl debuts as newly
mastered 2-LP sets. The Payback, a classic double-LP from 1974 featuring the
No. 1 hit title song; In The Jungle Groove, the original 2-LP compilation from
1986 featuring extended versions of the foundations of hip-hop, including “Soul
Power,” “Talkin’ Loud And Sayin’ Nothing,” “Funky Drummer” and more; and
Motherlode, a 1988 collection of rarities and unreleased sides, have been newly
reissued on vinyl.
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