On August 26,
1968, two weeks after releasing his civil rights anthem, "Say It Loud -
I'm Black And I'm Proud," James Brown recorded his concert at Dallas,
Texas' Memorial Auditorium. First released on CD in 1998, Brown's Say It Live
and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68 album will make its vinyl debut in an
expanded 2LP 50th Anniversary Edition, to be released October 12 by
Republic/UMe. The album's new, expanded digital edition will be released on the
same date.
On August 26, 1968, two weeks after releasing his civil
rights anthem, “Say It Loud - I’m Black And I’m Proud,” James Brown recorded
his concert at Dallas, Texas’ Memorial Auditorium. First released on CD in
1998, 'Brown’s Say It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68' album will make
its vinyl debut in an expanded 2LP 50th Anniversary Edition, to be released
October 12 by Republic/UMe. The album’s new, expanded digital edition will be
released on the same date.
Starting today, James Brown's previously unreleased
performance of "That's Life" from the Dallas concert is available for
streaming and for immediate download with digital album preorder. Preorder Say
It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68:
https://UMe.lnk.to/SayItLiveAndLoudPR
"From touchstone to newborn, from bop-inflected Maceo on
the piss-break instrumental to born-again JB on the climax medley, breakneck
intensity for the ages." – Robert Christgau
Say It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas 08.26.68 captures James
Brown and his band laying it down onstage in the heat of a tumultuous summer,
just months after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert
Kennedy, and on the same night the turbulent Democratic National Convention
opened in Chicago. The album features the first-ever live recordings of
"Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud," which Brown performed twice.
The new 2LP vinyl edition add two previously unreleased recordings, "That's
Life" and "The Popcorn," as well as an updated essay by James
Brown's former tour manager, Alan Leeds. An essay by Public Enemy's Chuck D,
written for the album's 1998 CD package, is also included.
Recorded August 7, 1968 and rush released on August 14,
James Brown's "Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud" rose to the top
of Billboard's R&B chart, reaching No. 1 on October 5, 1968 and holding the
top spot for six weeks. The single also peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard
Hot 100 singles chart.
"James Brown singlehandedly took a lost and confused
nation of people and bonded them with a fix of words, music and attitude,"
recalls Chuck D in his liner notes essay for Say It Live and Loud: Live in
Dallas 08.26.68. "'Say It Loud – I'm Black And I'm Proud' was the phrase
that prepared me for the third grade, 1969, and the rest of my life."
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