"If you're not about the truth, you're not qualified to play any kind of music." National Book Award–winner James McBride reads from Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul (Spiegel & Grau, 2016), a book covering the life of James Brown and McBride's personal history with music.
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