The Recoup

SINCE 2013: Books and books and books and books and occasionally other things

Rick James

  • Bar-Kays: Bar-Kays: The Definitive Collection

    This three-disc set serves as the first comprehensive examination of the influential funk band The Bar-Kays’ twenty year run, offering up some of the finest funk ever made. Read more

  • Bar-Kays: Bar-Kays: The Definitive Collection

    This three-disc set serves as the first comprehensive examination of the influential funk band The Bar-Kays’ twenty year run, offering up some of the finest funk ever made. Read more

  • Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James (Atria Books)

    A decade ago, one couldn’t move around in online social circles without hearing the phrase, ‘I’m Rick James, bitch!” Thanks to an appearance on the cable program Chappelle’s Show, the funk legend’s eccentric, hedonistic persona was revived, yet one couldn’t shake James’ appearance—bloated, occasionally babbling and making seemingly contradictory statement, he was not a well Read more