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Author McBride, James, 1957- author.

Title Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul / James McBride.

Publication Info. New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2016]
©2016

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY BROWN JAMES    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. BROWN, J.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  782.4216 MCBRIDE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO BROWN    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B BROWN. JAMES    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-BROWN MCB    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  780.92 B81M    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B BROWN, J.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B BROWN    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  BIOG BROWN, JAMES    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xx, 232 pages ; 25 cm
Summary "A product of the complicated history of the American South, James Brown was a cultural shape-shifter who arguably had the greatest influence of any artist on American popular music. Brown was long a figure of fascination for James McBride, a noted professional musician as well as a writer. When he received a tip that promised to uncover the man behind the myth, McBride set off to follow a trail to better understand the personal, musical, and societal influences that created this immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated soul genius."--flyleaf.
McBride shows that Brown's rough-and-tumble life is an unsettling metaphor for American life: the tension between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. From the forgotten corners of the country town where Brown's family was among those displaced by America's largest nuclear power bomb-making facility to the Augusta, Georgia, funeral home where the Michael Jackson sat up all night with the body of his musical godfather, you'll come to understand Brown through McBride’s own insights as a black musician with Southern roots.
Contents Foreword: The buzz -- Countin' off. Mystery house ; Cussin' and fussin' ; American jive -- Hit it! The vapors ; Six Gaines ; Leaving the land ; Bro ; To live standing ; The last flame ; The Rev ; The money man ; The earth beneath his feet ; More money ; The hundred-dollar man ; The rag that nobody reads ; Sis -- Quit it! Say goodbye to the king ; The dream -- Epilogue: Sister Lee.
Subject Brown, James, 1933-2006.
Soul musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Brown, James, 1933-2006. (OCoLC)fst01427996
Soul musicians. (OCoLC)fst01126932
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Biographies.
Added Title Kill them and leave
ISBN 9780812993509 (hardcover)
0812993500 (hardcover)
9780679645627 (ebook)
0679645624 (ebook)
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