Clyde Stubblefield, the funk drummer whose work with James Brown made him one of the most sampled musicians in history, died Saturday morning in Madison, Wisc. He was 73. He joined James Brown’s ...

Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967's "Funky Broadway," a Dyke & the Blazers classic and one of the first hit songs to use the word "funk" in its title, died May 17 of unknown causes in an unknown location.

A new book is highlighting the legacy of Clyde Stubblefield, the influential drummer whose solo break on James Brown’s “Funky ...

*Back in the day when James Brown was getting down and gettin’ funky wit it, he would always “give the drummer some!” The funky drummer he was referring to, Clyde Stubblefield, died on Saturday ...