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Article: I Got the Feelin': James Brown in the '60s (Shout Factory).(Brief article)(Video recording review)
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- December 1, 2008
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I Got the Feelin': James Brown in the '60s (Shout Factory)
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The story of how James Brown's concert at The Boston Garden the day after Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination helped prevent the city from erupting in riots is one of the great tales about the actual, physically manifested, power of music. That's why it's such a letdown that the documentary The Night James Brown Saved Boston gives the subject matter such standard rock doc treatment. There's all the contextual archival footage you'd expect ...