“Two thousand miles I roam, just to make Madison my home.” —Clyde Stubblefield I never saw James Brown dance across the stage to Clyde Stubblefield’s funky beat, but I danced many times to that beat ...

It didn’t take long for Clyde Stubblefield to start hating his greatest creation. The 20-second drum break, which he first played in a Cincinnati studio near the end of an exhausting 1969 tour with ...

Dylan Wissing is a session drummer with a passion for meticulously duplicating famous rhythms. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Dylan Wissing has been making a living as a versatile session drummer since the ...

Drummer Dylan Wissing, a versatile session drummer since the early 1990s, at his studio in Hoboken, N.J., on Sept. 23. Using vintage gear, Wissing wants to re-enact the drumming on the James Brown ...

I never saw James Brown dance across the stage to Clyde Stubblefield’s funky beat, but I danced many times to that beat in Madison, Wisconsin, years after Clyde left Brown’s band. Decades before in ...

James Brown released a seven-inch single called Funky Drummer in March, 1970 – a loosely arranged jam session showcasing the talent for improvisation of drummer Clyde Stubblefield, who was employed in ...

Drummer Clyde Stubblefield, the man behind what is arguably the most sampled beat in all of hip hop, died Saturday. He was 73. Stubblefield, a session drummer best known for his work with James Brown, ...

Clyde Stubblefield, the drummer whose work in a 1970 session with James Brown provided the backbeat for an astonishing number of iconic hip-hop songs, died Saturday at the age of 73, Rolling Stone ...

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 14: Rockwalk inductee Clyde Stubblefield speaks onstage during Guitar Center's 28th Annual Drum-Off Finals Event at The Novo by Microsoft on January 14, 2017 in Los Angeles, ...