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Author Spotlight: R.J. Smith

James Brown liked Los Angeles without ever exactly feeling comfortable here. It was a place he kept coming back to, sizing up from various angles. In the early 1960s...

New Reviews: March

The One: The Life and Music of James Brownby RJ Smith(Gotham Books, 464 pages, $27.50)The upbeat was James Brown’s heartbeat, his tie to the earth and to the past....