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

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

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Kool & The Gang, which will be inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday in Cleveland, is one of those bands that many folks, even funk and R&B aficionados can take for ...