James Brown performs in the Musikhalle in Hamburg, Germany in February 1973. Courtesy: Heinrich Klaffs/Wikicommons. I am in a funk. Fortunately I’m not alone. It seems everyone is in a funk. Unfortunately, everyone thinks it’s just them, so we’ve all spent the last week or two snapping at each…

If I’ve gotten one complaint more than any other about this column, it’s literally all of 1979. But aside from that it’s definitely snubbing Pink Floyd. But other than that…OK, there’s a lot of stuff, you all hate me. For the purposes of today’s edition, though, the complaint I’m talking…

Soul veteran Lee Fields was known as Little JB for much of his early career thanks to the uncanny similarity of his voice to his idol James Brown. In 1967, while still in his teens, he cut “Bewildered,” the soaring doo-wop soul track that was synonymous with Brown. Soon,…