Charles Bradley: Soul of America Page #6

Right? All the time.

'As the record draws near, it's like, "You've got to present yourself as Charles Bradley." He had a hard time.

'He wanted to come out with the cape and the James Brown thing.'

That's what he's used to getting up on stage and doing and we did not want that.

We wanted Charles to be Charles and it took a lot of convincing.

Charles has a record coming out January 25th,

so now starts the promotion leading up to the record coming out.

I'm going on tour with Sharon Jones to open up for her.

Sharon Jones is giving me a chance to expose some of my music,

to let the world know who Charles Bradley is.

It's real exciting for us as a label to be able to present these kind of packages

and Charles is the perfect guy to add to any of the shows

and get his name out on the heels of some of the other bands that have had success up to now.

If we go some place and we have 1,000 people come to see Sharon,

to be able to put him in front of that audience is a huge head start.

Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings has been our most prolific artist and our most successful artist,

the artist that's been around the longest, toured the most and sold ten times as many records.

He hadn't had a proper show in about a year or so.

You know, to also put that in context, he hasn't played a lot of gigs as Charles Bradley.

Working with Bradley live is a little stressful because he can go off in a song at any time.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

America!

We've got to make this world a better place.

Come on, Tommy, bring it all in!

# No time for dreaming

# Dreaming, dreaming

# Gotta get on up, gotta do your thing

# No time for dreaming

# Dreaming, dreaming

# Gotta get on up, gotta do your thing

# Hey!

# Hey!

# And get...

# Why don't ya? Yeah!

# No time for dreaming

# Dreaming, dreaming

# Gotta get on up, gotta do your thing

# No time for dreaming

# Dreaming, dreaming

# Gotta get on up, gotta do your thing

# Do your thing...

# No time for dreaming

# You gotta get on up

# And do your thing... #

CHEERING Love you!

I love you too.

- I love you too.

- I love you, Charles.

I love you too!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Put your hands together and give it up for Charles Bradley!

Show some love for Mr Charles Bradley!

OK, you're smarter.

- That was better than last night.

- Yes, it was.

- Killed it, Charles.

It was.

I know I made a few mistakes tonight, but I'm getting better.

The audience didn't see it, but I know it and Tom knows about it.

So the last one I was good on.

'Then there was one I made a mistake on, but I'll get better on it. I promise you that.'

We can't believe they didn't put you on more! Why didn't you come back on at the end?

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