Clyde Stubblefield

Biography

With Jabo Starks, drummer Stubblefield laid down the beat for James Brown’s biggest ’60s hits. Stubblefield helped travel such seminal Brownish funk-fests as “Mom Snacks,” “Chilly Perspiration,” “State It Noisy (I’m Dark and I’m Happy),” “I ACQUIRED the Feelin’,” and “Cool Drummer.” Stubblefield’s popular break within the second option was reappropriated therefore many times it gained him the unofficial name of “World’s Many Sampled Drummer.” Stubblefield was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He started playing drums as a kid, defeating on tin cans, pasteboard containers, and other things that he could easily get your hands on. After leaving Dark brown around 1970, Stubblefield briefly resolved in Detroit, after that relocated to Madison, Wisconsin. Stubblefield used the reconstituted J.B.’s, and was the drummer for humorist Michael Feldman’s display Whad’ya Find out on Wisconsin General public Radio. He also freelanced with organizations located in Wisconsin, and collaborated with Starks on some instructional video clips. Stubblefield passed away in Madison in Feb 2017; he was 73 yrs . old.

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