“Two thousand miles I roam, just to make Madison my home.” —Clyde Stubblefield I never saw James Brown dance across the stage to Clyde Stubblefield’s funky beat, but I danced many times to that beat ...
It didn’t take long for Clyde Stubblefield to start hating his greatest creation. The 20-second drum break, which he first played in a Cincinnati studio near the end of an exhausting 1969 tour with ...
Russell Batiste Jr. of the Funky Meters performs during the 2012 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans. (Rick Diamond / Getty Images) Russell Batiste Jr. said he was destined to be a ...