Track Listing

1. Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine - James Brown, Ronald Lenhoff, The Original J.B.s
2. Brother Rapp - James Brown
3. Bewildered - James Brown, Ronald Lenhoff, Clayton "Chicken" Gunnells, Darryl Jamison, Robert "Chopper" McCollough, Phelps "Catfish" Collins, William Earl Collins, Clyde Stubblefield, Johnny Griggs
4. I Got The Feelin' - James Brown
5. Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose - James Brown, Ronald Lenhoff, The Original J.B.s
6. I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door I'll Get It Myself)
7. Licking Stick - Licking Stick
8. Lowdown Popcorn
9. Spinning Wheel
10. If I Ruled The World
11. There Was A Time
12. It's A Man's Man's Man's World
13. Please, Please, Please
14. I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)
15. Mother Popcorn

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17187 in Music
• Released on: 1998-10-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 64 minutes

CD Description
Jackson Browne's early career was inextricably linked to the singer-songwriter movement of the 70s, and LATE FOR THE SKY has proven to be one of the era's strongest and most enduring releases. Browne's reflective songwriting style attaineda new level of maturity on songs such as "Fountain Of Sorrow" and "For A Dancer", the latter a strikingly literate meditation on death.
The high points on LATE FOR THE SKY are the title track and "Before the Deluge", two brooding songs of personal and social apocalypse that bookend the album andseem to reflect the disillusionment and weather-beaten moodof the counter-cultural generation in the early '70s. The balance between Browne's gentle, emotive voice and the tasteful arrangements perfectly matches the incisive quality of the songwriting, making LATE FOR THE SKY one of Browne's strongest, and most consistent albums.

Customer Reviews

This album marks the beginning of hip-hop
Without doubt one of the greatest live albums EVER!- fact. It has in my opinion the greatest rhythm section ever backing up The Godfather - a young Bootsy Collins on bass,and Clyde Stubblefield on drums - and the combination is electric, but they are pushed further musically by Mr. Brown himself. His performance is electrically, or maybe pharmaceutically!, charged. This was the period in the late 60's when James Brown was rewriting the musical rules and this album has been a staple diet of beats and breaks for hip hop artists for years. The highlight of the album for me is the sublime pure funk drive of 'give it up or turn it loose'. If you have any interest in black music - buy this album. Essential.

Compelling studio and live sounds
Until we get a Deluxe version of the actual live in concert performance we can still enthuse over this strange studio/live coupling. The studio tracks from Ohio (with overdubbed audience) sound almost as "live" as the Georgia tracks because apparently the session tapes did not pick up the crowd as well as on other CDs [referring to Live at the Apollo, Vol.s One and Three]. The studio recut "Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose" is by far the highlight of this offer, beautifully recorded and engineered.
The sad part is that it appears that the original idea for "James Brown, Live At Home..." somehow got lost in a generally disappointing performance. The star sounds tired and the band *sounds* out of tune [musicians, correct me if I'm wrong] on a few cuts. The strongest tunes on stage are "If I Ruled The World", the greatest rendition I've ever heard him do, and the finale "Mother Popcorn" - when JB calls for Maceo it's impossible not to jump back and do the Popcorn.