Brown's solo aspirations started around 1962. Brown was discovered by Famous Flames founder Bobby Byrd, who recruited him for his vocal group.Īfter the hit release of " Try Me", following nine relative failures, the group scored a series of hit albums and recordings in the early 1960s. Later becoming The Famous Flames, they signed with Federal Records in 1956 and recorded their first hit single, " Please, Please, Please", which sold over a million copies. Brown joined Bobby Byrd's vocal group The Flames in 1953, first as a drummer, and then as leading front man. This is a discography chronicling the musical career of James Brown. Album DescriptionJames Brown during the NBA All Star Game jam session in 2001. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. The Payback turned out to be one of James Brown's last inarguably great albums before he hit a long fallow streak in the mid- to late '70s, but no one listening to this set would ever imagine that this was the work of an artist (or a band) about to run out of gas. And even the album's lower-key cuts (such as the lovelorn "Doing the Best That I Can" and "Forever Suffering") sink their hooks into the listener and pull you in quite simply, this is remarkable stuff, and even Brown's attempts at lyrical relevance (which were frankly getting a bit shaky at this point in his career) are firmly rooted enough to sound convincing. Stretching eight cuts out over the space of nearly 73 minutes, The Payback is long on extended rhythmic jamming, and by this time Brown and his band had become such a potent and nearly telepathic combination that the musicians were able pull out lengthy solos while still maintaining some of the most hypnotic funk to be found anywhere, and on the album's best songs - the jazzy "Time Is Running Out Fast," the relentless "Shoot Your Shot," the tight-wound "Mind Power," and the bitter revenge fantasy of the title cut - the tough, sinuous rhythms and the precise interplay between the players is nothing short of a wonder to behold. Clair Pinckney, Jimmy Nolen, and Jabo Starks) relentlessly exploring the outer possibilities of the James Brown groove. Originally released in 1973 as a sprawling two-LP set, The Payback was one of James Brown's most ambitious albums of the 1970s, and also one of his best, with Brown and his band (which in 1974 still included Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, St.
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