James Brown's Godfather status is indisputable. His voice-- impassioned, dirty, raw, hankering, ecstatic--writhes with all the turbulence of a life well lived, if not always lived well. This compilation ranges from his 1956 hit, "Please Please Me", a doo-wop-ish ballad drenched by Brown's overwhelming vocal passion, to early 1970s work like "Sex Machine" and "(Call Me) Superbad" in which he upped ...