THE GODFATHER OF GO-GO
By Jim Fusilli – Wall Street Journal
Go-go music’s lack of broad appeal seems to boil down to the perception that it can draw a violent crowd: Promoters would rather steer clear of it, and as a result a wide audience hasn’t been nurtured. That’s a shame, because go-go music, at least when Mr. Brown serves it up, is an undeniably infectious strand of dance music with the potential to draw in fans of old-school R&B, hip-hop and ’70s jazz funk. Put Mr. Brown on stage at a festival like Bonnaroo or Glastonbury and he’d come away with thousands of new fans—and so would go-go music.
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