• Man, I just discovered this early in the morning and was blown away.

• Joe Tex is doing James Brown better than the man himself, ha.

• Does anyone know where this is from? His band sounds amazing.

• And the picture, man if walls could talk. What is being discussed. I also spot Solomon Burke and Johnnie Taylor in the dressing room surrouning James. Any help with locating this picture?

• From 9:07 to 12:07, Joe performs "I Got You" and "Please, Please, Please."

• Here's an old newspaper article about Joe talking about the James Brown (and other artist) he does at his show.

https://news.google.com/n...&hl=en

[Edited 8/5/15 19:29pm]

Joe is mentioned in this new book

MickyDolenz said:

From exactly how many blocks away was the recording made?

LittleBLUECorvette said:

What is he being mentioned about.

The book is basically about white musicians, producers, songwriters, and mixed bands (e.g. Booker T & The MGs) that were on many soul and R&B records during the 1960s & 1970s. There's mention of Malaco Records in the 1980s, particularly the popularity of ZZ Hill. The Malaco house band had some of the same guys that were in the Muscle Shoals band and the Stax horn section The Mar Keys, who were mostly white. And how this influenced country music of the time. There was even disco influenced country. Many of Joe's records had a white producer and white Nashville session guys. One of the things mentioned is that the same Nashville guys played on Ain't Gonna Bump No More and this song by country singer Bill Anderson. They both basically have the same rhythm:

There's also several pages in the book about the reaction to One Bad Apple by The Osmonds, which was written by a black songwriter and was first offered to the Jackson 5, but it was turned down. There's mention of the feeling of white musicians who were sometimes playing on militant 'black power' songs of the late 1960s & early 1970s and the interaction of the black & white musicians. The fist fight Ted White (who was Aretha Franklin's husband in the late 1960s) had at Muscle Shoals is mentioned. Another topic is how Charley Pride was accepted by country audiences and the failure of other black singers trying to break into country.