Chuck Brown doesn't know when to quit. That's not a character flaw — it's a trait that gave the world the musical equivalent of a marathon.
The 73-year-old guitarist and singer, dubbed the "Godfather of Go-Go," is still a man on the move thanks to the funk-based sound he created in the 1970s with his band, the Soul Searchers.
"Go-go music just keeps going and going and going," Brown says by phone from his home in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.
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