The film was a sequel to Black Caesar (1973), for which Brown and company had recorded one of the greatest soundtracks of all time. The Payback was originally conceived of as the soundtrack to Hell Up In Harlem (1973). The Payback is a contender for the best long player in Brown’s discography and one of the greatest funk albums of all time. So it stands to reason that James Brown and his JBs backing band would put their whole feet in this project, a formidable funk juggernaut. This is also the time when Brown fully embraced creating funky soul music, generating recordings that would reverberate throughout modern music history. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, it was not unusual for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business to release three or four projects a year. James Brown recorded and released The Payback 50 years ago, in the midst of his “Soul Brother #1” period, known as of one of the most creatively fertile eras of his lengthy career. Happy 50th Anniversary to James Brown’s thirty-seventh studio album The Payback, originally released in December 1973.
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