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Rare live performance by Deep Cotton

James BrownSly & the Family Stone
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Enjoy this 1997 performance by Chicago musical group Deep Cotton, featuring guitar virtuoso Stan Skibby and an energetic lead singer known simply as Phoenix. I caught this fun show on Aug. 29, 1997, at the On The Waterfront festival in Rockford, Ill. It was so memorable that I went back years later and tracked down this video. Don't mind the minor editing snafus. Just turn up the volume and jam to these great songs. James Brown, Sly & the Family Stone, Kool & the Gang -- it's all here. Plus a few tasty originals. Unfortunately, Deep Cotton did not stay together for very long. So this show is, indeed, a rarity. I hope you enjoy it.

About James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, and record producer. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by various nicknames, among them "Mr. Dynamite", "the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business", "Minister of New Super Heavy Funk", "Godfather of Soul", "King of Soul", and "Soul Brother No. 1". In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he influenced the development of severa...

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