RIGHT-CLICK & SAVE PLEASE: "It's A Man's Man's Man's World" by James Brown
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings played a titanic soul review style show on Friday at the Beacon. Towards the end of a set that had most folks shouting, shaking and shimmying, Jones and co. busted out a fine version of the James Brown standard "It's A Man's Man's Man's World".
It was a fairly bold move, not just because of the gender winkyness: "It's A Man's(x5)" was a signature tune for JB and often climaxed his legendary love show. For all his kinetic funk tracks, the man was also a supreme balladeer who, before devolving in to a EddieMurphariffic grunting self-parody, could send a crowd in to a frenzy with a simmering slow tune. Yes, he tossed in all sorts of squeals and sandpaper shrieks, but they often served to heighten the song's aching tension and release, most often on It's A Man's(x6), which, live, not only showed off JB's voice and whatever supeforce band he had in tow, but let the man wax philosophical about the roles of dudes and dudettes in the free market economy.
ANYHOW, here is a primo "live" example of JB and band on It's A Man's (x7). Culled from the "Sex Machine" album (a largely faux live album that was in fact recorded in a studio and featured audience overdubs, hence my use of the otherwise twee quotey fingers), this track should have any right thinking person rendering their garments and shrieking with glee!
So download, rock out and enjoy THE MAN JB!!!!!!!
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