Good evening ladies and gentlemen this is your captain speaking welcoming you aboard the cosmic express. I hope you're all buckled up and ready to go as we prepare our journey across the airwaves of funk, soul and disco. Today on our journey we'll be sliding along the slipway of soul, delving left at the diversion of disco and flying high on the freeway of funk on this Deep Funk Expedition!
We begin the podcastwith a series looking at The Godfather of Soul, James Brown. The first episode will delve into his poverty stricken childhood, the struggles he faced in a Jim Crow America and the eventual stroke of look that introduced him into the music industry in which he would eventually become an inspirational figure for a multitude of modern day artists.