Rock Music Menu: A ‘new’ James Brown song is nearly 55 years old

Rock Music Menu: A ‘new’ James Brown song is nearly 55 years old

Whenever there’s new music released by a long dead artist, it typically falls into two categories. The first, and most obvious, is that it’s simply not that great and there’s a clear reason why it was in the vault. The other is the egregious use of, say, a vocal track, and trying to build a song around it with present day musicians. Usually, those aren’t too good either. Thankfully, none of that is the case with the brand new, almost 55-year-old…