Stories by Marc Eisen

That would be the great funk drummer Clyde Stubblefield sitting in with jam band leader Karl Denson at the Majestic Theatre in Madison on March 29, 2009. Stubblefield’s death prompted me to rummage through my musical archives to find an audio of their meeting. It’s killer.

I wrote about it for Tone Madison, the online arts chronicler:

When the jam ended, Denson’s band of young African-American players gathered around Stubblefield to shake his hand and hug him. They were in the presence of their hero. “That was a big deal for me,” a blissed and happy Denson told the cheering crowd. “If anybody recorded that, I need a copy. Throw that up on YouTube right away. You know what I’m saying?”
I don’t have the video, but here—eight years later—is the audio of that perfect moment in the late Clyde Stubblefield’s extraordinary life in American music.

You can read the post and hear the jam here.

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Tags: Clyde Stubblefield, Karl Denson