James Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina, as an only child in 1933. His father was a filling station attendant. When James was four, his parents separated and he grew up in the brothel of his aunt, a poor woman in Augusta, Georgia. Brown left school in the seventh grade. He picked cotton, was a shoe-shine boy, washed cars and dishes and swept out stores. At the age of 16, he took part in an armed robbery and was caught breaking into a car. James was sentenced to eight to sixteen years' hard labor. He served a short period in the county jail before being transferred to juvenile work farms. He spent three years in a community home. Afterwards, he tried to work as a boxer. His ambitions to make a career as a baseball pitcher ended with a leg injury. He had been a pitcher for the prison team and that's where he first met Bobby Byrd who played against him in a local game. 
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Funk on Ah Roll
Good Party Song! (DJ Funk)
Black Caesar (1973) Funk
JB's First Soundtrack. (FunkBag)
Tracks: Blind Man Can See It - Chase - Dirty Harri - Down and Out in New York City - Like It Is, Like It Was - Make It Good to Yourself - Mama Feelgood - Mama's Dead - Sportin' Life - The Boss - White Lightning (I Mean Moonshine)
Payback (1973) One of the Classic JB albums. (FunkBag)
Tracks: Doing The Best I Can - Forever Suffering - Mind Power - Shoot Your Shot - Stone To The Bone - Take Some...Leave Some - The Payback - Time Is Running Out Fast
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973) Funk, Soul One of the JB's strongest albums creatively. (FunkBag)
Tracks: Big strong - Brother rap - Happy for the poo - How long can I keep it up - King Slaughter - People get up and drive your funky soul - Really, really, really - Sexy, sexy, sexy - Slaughter theme - Straight ahead - To my brother - Transmograpfication - Tryin' to get over
In the jungle groove (1986) Funk The Bootsy years, cram packed full of funk from the godfather, a must have. (FunkBag)
Tracks: Funky drummer - Get up get into it and get involved - Give it up or turn it loose - Hot pants 
- I got to move - It's a new day - Soul power - Talkin' loud and sayin' nothing
Star time (1991) Soul, Funk The all in one answer to stocking up on your J.B collection. Everything from 'please please me', to 'unity'. Fantastic, get it. (FunkBag)
