These Are The JBs

The unreleased album by James Brown's backing band: the Bootsy Collins-lead JB's. Never-before-heard James Brown and J.B.'s originals and covers of Jimi Hendrix, Kool and the Gang, the Meters. This album is the Rosetta Stone of funk's dominant idioms, yet its existence has barely been a rumour. In 1970 James Brown perfectly captured a definitive moment in modern music when he ordered Bootsy Collins into the studio to record the tracks that would be test pressed on King Records as These Are The J.B.'s. This album is the epitome of funk music, Brown's innovation that influenced everything that came after it, from Afro-beat to disco to hip-hop.