'The James Brown Reader' Shares a Warts-and-all View of the Godfather of Soul

Baltimore City Paper | June 24, 2008

Co-editors Nelson George and Alan Leeds both contribute fine overtures to the volume, but it's hard not to wish they'd included a note about their compiling methodology, though it doesn't take long to figure out the pair elected to leave in original typos, misspellings, falsities, and myths.

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