The Rumpus.net » James Brown http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The One http://therumpus.net/2012/05/the-one-2/ http://therumpus.net/2012/05/the-one-2/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 16:00:27 +0000 Graham Todd http://therumpus.net/?p=100709 The NYT‘s section Books of the Times reviews RJ Smith’s biography of James Brown, The One, which came out earlier this spring: “This book’s sparkle speaks for itself, as does Mr. Smith’s ability to take on his screaming, moaning, kinetically blessed, unbeatably shrewd subject.” Smith covers Brown’s life from his childhood in the rural South to his post-glory troubles with the law while dropping stories about the idiosyncrasies and many talents of the late great “Soul Brother Number One”.

]]> The NYT‘s section Books of the Times reviews RJ Smith’s biography of James Brown, The One, which came out earlier this spring: “This book’s sparkle speaks for itself, as does Mr. Smith’s ability to take on his screaming, moaning, kinetically blessed, unbeatably shrewd subject.” Smith covers Brown’s life from his childhood in the rural South to his post-glory troubles with the law while dropping stories about the idiosyncrasies and many talents of the late great “Soul Brother Number One”.

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