REWND - James Brown: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag... Of Meth

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.6 • 13.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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What happens when the hardest working man in show business takes a break? Idle hands are indeed the devil’s workshop. This episode will detail James Brown’s scorching career as well as the scorching high speed chase he led cops on that led to his arrest and jail sentencing for drugs and firearms. To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at www.disgracelandpod.com. This episode was originally published on June 26, 2018. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at disgracelandpod.com/membership. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - GET THE NEWSLETTER Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: Instagram YouTube X (formerly Twitter) Facebook Fan Group TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Double Elvis.
0:08.0	Disgraceland is brought to you by Disgraceland All Access.
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0:18.0	Hey, disco is welcome to this week's rewind episode.
0:21.0	Every Friday we drop an episode from our archive into the feed for you.
0:25.6	Maybe it's when you missed, maybe it's one you haven't heard in a while.
0:28.0	Either way, we hope you dig it and we get a ton of other great episodes in our archive for you.
0:32.2	Episodes on the Beatles, the Stones,
0:34.2	Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and more. Just search them in your podcatcher, dig into
0:39.2	the Disgraysand Archive and hit me up on socials at Disgraysland Pod
0:43.2	and let me know what treasures you find.
0:45.3	Disgraysland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about Soul Singer, James Brown, are insane.
0:54.0	Naturious. What about soul singer, James Brown, are insane.
1:04.0	Notorious for fining his band members for dropping beats
1:08.0	and for firing them for dropping acid.
1:11.0	He himself would later mix his angel dust in with his cream corn for breakfast.
1:17.2	He once took his shotgun and blasted up a juke joint in an attempt to murder fellow soul singer, Joe Tex, injuring seven people in the process.
1:27.9	When Elvis Presley died, James Brown requested and received a private viewing of the body, where he kneeled over and whispered to the dearly departed king.
1:37.0	Elvis, you rat, I ain't number two no more.
1:41.0	The myth surrounding the birth of James Brown is that he was a stillborn baby, but worked so hard that he overcame the impossible, and then applied the same work ethic to overcome the soul-crushing poverty he grew up in, to become America's soul-brother number one. Coming from nothing, he worked his supernatural talent hard and took it as far as he could take it to the top, becoming one, if not the,
2:06.7	most successful musicians of all time.
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