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Author McBride, James, 1957- author

Title Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul / James McBride

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 Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks  782.42164 .M1227k    AVAILABLE  
 Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks  782.42164 .M1227k c.2  AVAILABLE  
 UMFK Stacks  ML420.B818 M33 2016    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition
Phys Descr xx, 232 pages ; 25 cm
Summary "A product of the complicated history of the American South, James Brown was a cultural shape-shifter who arguably had the greatest influence of any artist on American popular music. Brown was long a figure of fascination for James McBride, a noted professional musician as well as a writer. When he received a tip that promised to uncover the man behind the myth, McBride set off to follow a trail to better understand the personal, musical, and societal influences that created this immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated soul genius."--flyleaf
McBride shows that Brown's rough-and-tumble life is an unsettling metaphor for American life: the tension between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. From the forgotten corners of the country town where Brown's family was among those displaced by America's largest nuclear power bomb-making facility to the Augusta, Georgia, funeral home where the Michael Jackson sat up all night with the body of his musical godfather, you'll come to understand Brown through McBride's own insights as a black musician with Southern roots
Contents Foreword: The buzz -- Countin' off. Mystery house ; Cussin' and fussin' ; American jive -- Hit it! The vapors ; Six Gaines ; Leaving the land ; Bro ; To live standing ; The last flame ; The Rev ; The money man ; The earth beneath his feet ; More money ; The hundred-dollar man ; The rag that nobody reads ; Sis -- Quit it! Say goodbye to the king ; The dream -- Epilogue: Sister Lee
Subject Brown, James, 1933-2006
Soul musicians -- United States -- Biography
Alt Title Kill them and leave
OCLC # 913829555
ISBN # 9780812993509
0812993500