speats

It's been a zillion years since I posted proper so here I go with one of little consequence (but one of great importance in my world).

About a dozen years ago I liquidated most of my CD collection to help pay for a trip to Europe (I was 21 and fending off a semi-imagined mid-life crisis). Well many years later I've managed to replace the vital titles of my dearly departed catalog but a few still elude me.

After reading a recent Rolling Stone article on James Brown I started missing, I mean REALLY missing my old copy of "The CD of JB" (the first CD compilation of James Brown material ever to be released).

Sure there have been other James Brown compilations (one of which I have)...but none has been better than the CD of JB. I mean this one has "Doing It To Death" AND "Mother Popcorn" AND "Sex Machine"! Never had such a playlist of James Brown original soul had been so expertly programmed (and thanks to greedy corporate record marketeers, one would never appear again that good). I didn't appreciate what I had and like the cliche', I didn't know what I had 'til it was gone.

So flash forward to the present and an empty-handed Amoeba trip later, eBay has delivered the CD of JB back to the CD Player of JS.

As the Godfather of Soul himself would say, "I feel good".