“Augusta moon won’t you keep on shining on me,” sang Pat Simmons of the Doobie Brothers to the crowd celebrating the life of singer James Brown.
Brown would have been 75 years old on May 3 had he not died of pneumonia and congestive heart failure on Christmas Day 2006.
The people of Augusta, Ga. along with the Doobie Brothers, Branford Marsalis and members of Brown’s backup band, the Soul Generals, celebrated his life with a nine-hour “Payback Concert” on Augusta Commons two Saturday’s ago.