3 episodes
Deep Funk Expedition Chris Hollinshead
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking welcoming you aboard the cosmic express. I hope you're all buckled up and ready to go as we prepare our journey across the airwaves of funk, soul and disco. Today on our journey we'll be sliding along the slipway of soul, delving left at the diversion of disco and flying high on the freeway of funk on this Deep Funk Expedition!
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James Volume 3: Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud
In this episode we travel with James through the civil rights movement, the assassination of MLK, how James Brown saved Boston and his journeys through Vietnam, all culminating in the black power Hit "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" for anybody interested in the history of music, civil rights and the black power movement, this one is interesting as all hell.
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James Brown Volume 2: The Famous Flames
We delve into James Brown beginning his career and progressing with his multiple incarnations of The Famous Flames, finding their first hit and the struggles they faced along the way.
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James Brown Volume 1: Medieval Style Poverty
We begin the podcastwith a series looking at The Godfather of Soul, James Brown. The first episode will delve into his poverty stricken childhood, the struggles he faced in a Jim Crow America and the eventual stroke of look that introduced him into the music industry in which he would eventually become an inspirational figure for a multitude of modern day artists.