December 27, 2006
A day after James Brown's death, music buffs in the Salem area were out snapping up some of the rhythm-and-blues king's groundbreaking hits.
At Borders on Lancaster Drive NE, the pompadoured dynamo's most famous album, recorded in 1962, was cleaned off the shelves.
"We sold out of his 'Live at the Apollo' album, but we still have some of his greatest-hits albums," Lainie Knutsen, the store's general manager, said Tuesday.
Brown died Monday of congestive heart failure as a result of pneumonia. He was 73.
Kit Close, the owner of Ranch Records on Liberty Street NE, treated customers to Brown's most revolutionary rhythms.
"We've been playing his music since we opened today," he said.
Andy Baker of Salem, a customer at the store, said: "James Brown had soul. .
.. It's a bummer he died.
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Brian Cossack, the owner of Harvest Music on Commercial Street SE, stayed busy Tuesday fielding phone inquiries about the availability of Brown's music.
"I even bought some of his music for myself," he said. "I've always had a collection of his music.
He was a huge influence on the music industry, and it's sad to have lost him. Truth is, there will never be another James Brown.
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