clyde stubblefield
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A Thing I Wrote About Guns and Loopholes
I should begin with the hole in my sister’s face. I should describe how surprisingly clean a hole a bullet bores into a skull—as if her head was a watermelon or a piece of wood or a thing we did not love. I should probably detail how surprisingly sturdy my knees felt as I stood…
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Ain’t It Funky? James Brown’s Most Sampled Drummer, Clyde Stubblefield, Dies at 73
Now, anyone who knows the genius of James Brown knows that that man kept “the pocket” thumping. Sadly, one of the drivers of Brown’s most iconic grooves—and one of hip-hop’s most sampled drummers—Clyde Stubblefield, has died. He was 73. Stubblefield died of kidney failure at a Madison, Wis., hospital Saturday, according to the Associated Press.…