"Funky Drummer" by Clyde Stubblefield shaped hip-hop and pop, yet the most sampled drummer in music history died unpaid and overlooked.

“I’ll give you a perfect example. There’s a song called Electric Saxophone Is Fun (We Want Drugs), and it was done all on ...

After a career keeping the beat for funk band the Bar-Kays, Columbus drummer Michael Beard died Aug. 25. He was 69 years old. When Beard was a young man, he was recruited by the Bar-Kays while ...

The Tool song "Schism" recently brought out a professional funk drummer's impressive improv chops after he heard the prog-rock track for the very first time. On the fly, he does an in-the-pocket drum ...

Clyde Stubblefield and Jabo Starks should have been rivals: James Brown hired both of them to do one job. Instead, they stuck together, and laid... The Original Funky Drummers On Life With James Brown ...

The musician was among the founding members and songwriters of the iconic funk group Isa Foltin/Getty George “Funky” Brown, drummer and co-founder of Kool & the Gang, has died at age 74. A rep for the ...

*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 ...

David Brown Thompson, a renowned Philly funk drummer and a devoted family man, died June 3. He was 80. He was born April 6, 1945, in Philadelphia to the late Margaret Thompson and David Brown and was ...