James Brown’s “Get on the Good Foot” is another in the endless stream of Funky rarities that seem to emerge whenever you go digging in the crates.
This video above is also a fine showcase of the dynamic and fluid footwork that made helped to feed the unstoppable legend of James Brown, then know as “the hardest-working man in show business.
From Jonathan Lethem in Rolling Stone:
“For to see James Brown dance and sing, to see him lead his mighty band with the merest glances and tiny flickers of signal from his hands; to see him offer himself to his audience to be adored and enraptured and ravished; to watch him tremble and suffer as he tears his screams and moans of lust, glory and regret from his sweat-drenched body . . . is not to see: It is to behold.”
Dig this Funky Refix by Kenny Beeper of Hobart, Australia:
A slower version of “Get on the Good Foot” is also on the books, and is equally Funky, so enjoy:
