Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967's "Funky Broadway," a Dyke & the Blazers classic and one of the first hit songs to use a variation ...

Clyde Stubblefield, the funk drummer whose work with James Brown made him one of the most sampled musicians in history, died Saturday morning in Madison, Wisc. He was 73. He joined James Brown’s ...

The musician deployed a drumming technique that would influence countless funk and hip-hop artists. By Steve Knopper Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967’s “Funky Broadway,” a Dyke & the Blazers classic and ...

*Back in the day when James Brown was getting down and gettin’ funky wit it, he would always “give the drummer some!” The funky drummer he was referring to, Clyde Stubblefield, died on Saturday ...

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