Difficult to imagine the past half century of music without him.
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Difficult to imagine the past half century of music without him.
There is some research (see DK Simonton) that indicates that scientific and artistic achievers do not have a higher strike rate than the mediocre - they just produce more. And JB was living proof of this. The amount of second-rate tat he produced was phenomenal.
And I don't think you can forget that (unlike Dylan say) Brown's genius was fundamentally collaborative. He had Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Bootsy Collins, Jabo Starks at various points in his band.
Good God!
Difficult to imagine the past half century of music without him.
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Do you realise exactly how much music JB produced during his lifetime? Most discographies I gave seen list over 80 albums bearing the JB imprint. Now, I have not listened to all of those albums - but my guess is that not everyone of those songs is a killer tune.