
James Brown Sex Machine (Hybrid SACD, MOFI, Numbered Limited Edition)
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Vocals – James Brown [click here to see more vinyl featuring James Brown]
Baritone Saxophone – St-Clair Pinckney (7 to 15)
Bass – 'Sweet' Charles Sherrell (2, 7 to 15), Bootsy Collins (1, 3 to 6)
Congas – Johnny Griggs (3 to 6)
Drums – Clyde Stubblefield (2, 7 to 15), John Jabo Starks (1, 7 to 15), Melvin Parker (7 to 15)
Engineer – Ron Lenhoff
Guitar – Catfish Collins (1, 3 to 6), Jimmy Nolen (2, 7 to 15)
Liner Notes – Makoto Yagi
Organ – Bobby Byrd (1, 3 to 6)
Tenor Saxophone – Eldee Williams (2, 7, 8, 10 to 15), Maceo Parker (2, 7 to 15), Robert Chopper McCollough (1, 3 to 6)
Trombone – Fred Wesley (2, 7 to 15)
Trumpet – Clayton Gunnells (1, 3 to 6), Darryl Hassan Jamison (1, 3 to 6), Joseph Davis (2, 7 to 15), Richard Griffith (2, 7 to 15)
Written by James Brown (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, 15), Bobby Byrd (1, 7), Ron Lenhoff (1), Charles Bobbitt (5), Alfred Ellis (7), Whitcup (3), Powell (3), David Clayton-Thomas (9), Cyril Ornadel (10), Leslie Bricusse (10), Bud Hobgood (11), Johnny Terry (13)
1 Hybrid SACD
Limited Numbered Edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Stereo
Studio & Live (7, 8, 11 to 15)
Label : MOFI
Original Label : King Records
Recorded :
- live on October 1, 1969 (7, 8, 11 to 15) in Bell Auditorium in Augusta, GA
- in Cincinnati on July 23, 1970 (1, 3 to 6) ; October 14, 1969 (2)
- in Miami on June 12, 1969 (9)
Engineered by Ron Lenhoff
Produced by James Brown
Remastered by Krieg Wunderlich
Originally released in September 1970
Reissued in September 2025
Tracks:
- Get Up I Feel Like Being Like a Sex Machine
- Brother Rapp (Part I and Part II)
- Bewildered
- I Got the Feeling
- Give It Up or Turnit a Loose
- I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing
- Licking Stick
- Low Down Popcorn
- Spinning Wheel
- If I Ruled the World
- There Was a Time
- It's a Man's Man's Man's World
- Please, Please, Please
- I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me)
- Mother Popcorn
Award :
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Ranked 439/500
Reviews:
“This live outing from Brown's seminal 1970 J.B.'s lineup features Bootsy Collins, Clyde Stubblefield, Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Bobby Byrd, and many more. While it's a cut below Love Power Peace in documenting this lineup live, Brown and his band still smoke, tearing into extended versions of funk classics like "Sex Machine" (nearly 11 minutes), "Brother Rapp," "Give It Up or Turnit a Loose," and "Mother Popcorn," plus a healthy quotient of earlier soul material sprinkled in between.” AllMusic Review by Steve Huey
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4 / 5 ; Discogs : 4,61 / 5