“I came up with this arrangement when my wife (she plays oboe) and I used to play together in church.  We played it as a duet with more swing and less funk, but it became a regular of ours. The band came up with the sort of James Brown version the night before a conference and practiced it acoustically in a green room.  Nate was just banging sticks against a table.  We had never played it live or practiced it with our amps on before we debuted it to our audience. Jon told them how it only seemed appropriate that a song written by a former slave trader be put in the style of an African American funk singer." - Jared

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