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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Clyde Stubblefield, Music’s Original Funky Drummer
Description: Today in 1969, at a session for soul and funk icon James Brown, drummer Clyde Stubblefield laid down what's probably the most sampled beat of all time. Plus: today in 2021, the premiere of "Sooyii," the first movie filmed entirely in the Blackfoot language.
Funky Drummer — pop history was made when James Brown hollered ‘Hit it!’ (Financial Times)
Film shot entirely in Blackfoot language, on tribal land to premiere (The Missoulian)
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