ジェームス・ブラウンの1969年伝説のライヴの完全版『Live At Home With His Bad Self』が初リリース!

1969年後半にリリースすべく同年10月1日にジョージア州オーガスタのベル・オーディトリアム で録音されたものの、1970年に『セックス・マシーン』の一部として発表されることになった伝説のホーム・カミング・ライヴの50周年を記念して、コンプリートな内容による初リリースが決定!未発表ライヴ7曲収録。サックスのMaceo Parkerや、Maceoの兄弟であるMelvin Parker、Jabo Starks、Clyde Stubblefieldの3人のドラマーが初めて顔を揃えたツアーだったが、ツアー後にバンドは解散。BrownはBootsy Collinsを加えたニュー・ラインアップを結成しわずか数週間で、かの「Sex Machine」を録音し、シングルとしてリリースしたところ、これが大ヒットを記録。これを受けて、当初は完全なライヴ・アルバムとして発表する予定だった『Live at Home with His Bad Self 』のリリースは見送られ、翌1970年に発表した別アルバム『Sex Machine』の一部として陽の目を見ることとなった。Jeff Beck、Bonnie Raitt、Babyface他の作品で著名なPeter A. Barkerの手により、オリジナル・アナログ・マルチ・トラックからの新たなミックスが施されている。180g重量盤ブラック・ヴァイナル2枚組。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2019/10/01）

Live at Home with His Bad Self is the first-ever release of the complete homecoming concert James Brown held at Augusta, Georgias Bell Auditorium on October 1, 1969. The performance was intended as a live album for that holiday season, but those plans were scrapped once his band walked out on him. Roughly a year later, the Sex Machine double album arrived bearing some of the recordings from this concert. The full show didnt materialize until 2019, when the album was released for its would-be 50th anniversary. Considering how so many members of Browns band left in the months that followed, the concert turned out to be as valedictory as it was victorious; this was the last time Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Jimmy Nolen, Sweet Charles Sherrell, and Clyde Stubblefield shared the stage with Soul Brother Number One. The great thing about Live at Home with His Bad Self is that it carries no air of being a major statement: Brown simply whipped the group into shape to deliver a show that he could be proud to deliver to a hometown crowd. The performance contains a few period oddities -- the J.B.s jamming to Blood Sweat & Tears Spinning Wheel fares a little bit better than James crooning through the show tune If I Ruled the World, and both are better than Brown performing to a pre-recorded track for World -- but complaining about these cuts amounts to nitpicking. Every cut, including the old-fashioned numbers, finds James Brown and the J.B.s in prime shape, tearing through their hits and extending There Was a Time, Lowdown Popcorn, and Mother Popcorn to the point that theyre about to burst. As a sheer performance, its giddy and intoxicating, but its also a useful document of one of Browns best bands at their live peak. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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