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JAMES BROWN
I'm Back
Georgia Lina/Mercury
Fact is, James Brown was back in force on Live at the Apollo 1995,
and several of his Scotti Bros. studio albums are of '90s vintage.
But the Godfather can get away with calling his new one I'm Back
because he knows he's taken for granted. And the fact also is,
Brown is correct to act as if he's put such likely-seeming recent
helpmates as Dan Hartman, Full Force, and Narada Michael Walden to
shame. Instead of bowing to electrobeat fashion, Brown and
collaborator Derrick Monk create a dozen classic funk tracks square
in the founder's definitive tradition. Three mixes of "Funk on Ah
Roll" reclaim Jimmy Nolen chicken-scratch for the engine of life it
is, "James on the Loose" collages him cunningly, and the relaxed
"Kare" makes love not noise. Fact is, Brown released plenty of '70s
albums far less memorable than this one.
Rolling Stone, 1998
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