A very young James Brown used to shine shoes & dance for troops for money in Georgia’s Fort Gordon. Coincidentally, blues guitarist Howlin’ Wolf was serving in the Army at that same fort, and the future Godfather of Soul was inspired to pick up a guitar by watching Wolf play every day.

According to Dan Aykroyd, while a young man in Ottawa, he filled in on drums one night behind Muddy Waters (for Mud’s regular drummer S.P. Leary).

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