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May 17, 2012
wind me up, chuck
Not many people have heard of Chuck Brown, who died yesterday. It's a pity. His music is unique and upbeat to the point of relentlessness. I often put him on when I'm dragging. If the below description sounds appealing to you at all, I encourage you to check him out today.
From Rhapsody:
"A barn-storming ex-hobo who used to play for food but stuck around long enough to become a good-time ambassador for his community. He is also, as much as one person can be, the originator of a musical genre: go-go music, a hybrid of big-band '70s funk, multi-drummed Latin percussion, gospel call-and-response, horn-section jazz, old-school rapping and DJ-like song segues that evolved in Washington, D.C., through the '70s."
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