Damn Right I Am Somebody
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Of the many projects that came out of James Brown’s People Records label in the early ’70s, trombone player Fred Wesley’s Damn Right I Am Somebody is one of the strongest. Peppered with vocal and Moog noodling contributions from the Godfather, Wesley and the JBs deliver a set of stone-cold funk classics including the acid-funk of ‘Blow Your Head’ and the frantic, dark, psychedelic epic ‘I’m Payin’ Taxes, What Am I Buyin’?’, its a cappella breakdowns one of the strangest moments in James Brown’s catalogue and indeed in soul music. Funky and futurist at the same time.