Name John Starks Music group The J.B.'s (1970 – 1975) | Role Drummer | |
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Albums Hustle With Speed, Doing It to Death Similar People Clyde Stubblefield, St Clair Pinckney, Catfish Collins, Fred Wesley, Bobby Byrd |
WIill Lee Bass , John Jabo Starks Drums - TWO WOODPECKERS
John "Jabo" Starks (born October 26, 1938) is an American funk and blues drummer. He is best known for playing with James Brown. Starks played on many of Brown's biggest hits, either as the sole drummer or in tandem with Clyde Stubblefield, including "The Payback", "Sex Machine", "Super Bad", and "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing". He has also backed many of the artists produced or managed by Brown, most notably Lyn Collins, The JBs, and Bobby Byrd. Along with his colleague Stubblefield, Starks ranks as one of the most sampled drummers on contemporary hip hop and R&B recordings.
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In his long career, Starks has played with a number of major figures of the blues, including Bobby Blue Bland and B.B. King. Starks appeared on some of Bland's most successful records, among them "I Pity the Fool" (1961), "Turn On Your Love Light" and "Stormy Monday Blues". He has continued to work with Stubblefield, with whom he recorded an instructional video and a recent CD as The Funkmasters.

Starks lives in Mobile, Alabama and performs in Grayton Beach, Florida. When not touring or recording, he performs five nights a week at the Picolo Restaurant and Red Bar, a local restaurant.

In 2007, Starks and Stubblefield joined Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell for the Superbad recording.
On 22 December 2007 Starks, Stubblefield, and Bootsy performed in Covington, Kentucky for the first tribute concert remembering James Brown.

More recently he and Stubblefield completed a CD with Fred Wesley, which was released in 2008 by Columbia Entertainment Music, Inc. in Tokyo.
John Jabo Starks is a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church of Cottage Hill, at 5051 Ebenezer Dr, Mobile, Alabama.
Songs
Pass The Peas
Doing It to Death
Same Beat
The Grunt
Blow Your Head
More Peas
Damn Right - I Am Somebody
These Are the JB's
I Wanna Get Down
If You Don't Get It The First Time - Back Up And Try It Again - Party
Breakin' Bread
Hot Pants Road
You Can Have Watergate Just Gimme Some Bucks And I'll Be Straight
It's the JB's Monaurail
La Di Da La Di Day
Thank You for Letting Be Myself and You Be Yours
Little Boy Black
You Sure Love to Ball
Rockin' Funky Watergate
Make Me What You Want Me to Be
To My Brother
Wine Spot
Rice 'n' Ribs
Theme From King Heroin
Blessed Blackness
Taurus - Aries & Leo
Things & Do
Escape-Ism - Part 2
I'm Payin' Taxes - What Am I Buyin'?
Sucker
Escape-Ism - Part 1
Introduction to the JB's