Capital Times - Doug Moe: Madison's Clyde Stubblefield & Harriet Brown

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Capital Times - Doug Moe: Madison's Clyde Stubblefield & Harriet Brown

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/moe/201206

Column: Toasting Milwaukee's finest

Doug Moe — 7/13/2007 10:53 am
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... THERE'S A nice tribute to Madison's Clyde Stubblefield in the July issue of Blender magazine. Blender writers compiled a list of the "100 days that changed music," a list that includes the day Elvis Presley signed with Colonel Parker (Aug. 15, 1955) and the day John Lennon died (Dec. 8, 1980).

Another of the 100 days is Nov. 20, 1969: "Clyde Stubblefield plays on Funky Drummer.' " The citation continues: "Beginning with Stubblefield's first single with James Brown, 1967's 'Cold Sweat,' the Godfather made room for his mind-bending drummer to solo whenever possible. Five minutes and 22 seconds into the final hit recorded by Brown's classic '60s band, at a session at King Records in Cincinnati, Stubblefield got his defining moment: an entire song built around his eight-bar break. When DJs a decade later discovered that they could loop two copies of it endlessly, Stubblefield's beat became arguably the most-sampled rhythm in hip-hop history, appearing on well over 150 records." ...

... Madison writer and editor Harriet Brown is now doing commentaries for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and had one this week on getting over her phobia of tornadoes after moving to Madison from the Northeast. ...

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