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The Testimony of Sweet Baby James

The Testimony of Sweet Baby James

James Benton is chock full of soul, man. So much that he can barely control it. Take the song “The Body,” for instance. It’s a boogie-woogie groove authored by Benton himself that was banned from Portland radio in 1955 because of its sexually suggestive underpinnings. Sure, after performing “The Body” to throngs of jazz and R&B ...


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