Charles Henry Spurling

Soul Man - A Portrait of Charles Spurling

Charles Waring - Waxpoetics.com - December 2008

 

There was a time when no one in their right mind messed with Charles Spurling. James Brown tried it once, and ended up picking himself off the floor. “I dusted his butt,” laughs 72-year-old, Cincinnati-born Spurling, whose main claim to fame rests on co-writing, with Hank Ballard, Marva Whitney’s much-sampled funk classic, “Unwind Yourself,” in 1967.