The J.B.'s - More Mess On My Thing

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Contains extensive booklet with full annotation, liner notes by Brown historian Alan Leeds and never-before-published photos.

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This is the companion piece to Now-Again’s first-ever issue of the lost J.B.’s album These Are The J.B.’s. All tracks mixed by Mario Caldato, directly from the original multi-track masters. Overseen by Egon and Universal Music Group’s in-house Brown expert Harry Weinger.

In 1969 Bootsy Collins, barely 18 years old, brought his band into King Studios and recorded a demo entitled “More Mess On My Thing.” Brown approved, brought Collins and his band on as his backing band The J.B.’s and propelled funk music to its epitome with songs like “Give It Up And Turn It Loose,” Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved” and “Super Bad.”

This album presents that mythical demo alongside the the complete version of “When You Feel It, Grunt If You Can,” presenting two never-issued songs in a 22-minute medley, and the unreleased instrumental “The Wedge.”

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released November 29, 2019

Art Direction – Errol F. Richardson
Liner Notes – Alan Leeds
Mastered By – Dave Cooley
Mixed By – Mario Caldato*
Producer – James Brown
Reissue Producer – Eothen Alapatt

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Now-Again Records Los Angeles, California

Now-Again Records is the imprint founded by Eothen Alapatt 2002. He oversees all of the label’s reissues and manages a vast catalog of music from the 1950s through the present day, with a focus on the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s.

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