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Live at home with his bad self!


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AllMusic

2019

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

2019

"Live at Home with His Bad Self is the first-ever release of the complete homecoming concert James Brown held at Augusta, Georgia's Bell Auditorium on October 1, 1969. The performance was intended as a live album for that holiday season, but those plans were scrapped once his band walked out on him. Roughly a year later, the Sex Machine double album arrived bearing some of the recordings from this concert. The full show didn't materialize until 2019, when the album was released for its would-be 50th anniversary ... As a sheer performance, it's giddy and intoxicating, but it's also a useful document of one of Brown's best bands at their live peak".