Sweet James (Brown)

Have you ever noticed how many billboards advertise personal injury attorneys? No wonder kids can’t have fun anymore. I mean, who wants to race go-carts if you can’t bump into the other cars and cut people out?

Out in my area, we see a ton of billboards for Jacoby & Meyers*, Anh Phong, Morgan & Morgan, and of course, Sweet James. I like to torture my wife and kids every time I drive by a Sweet James billboard by saying “Sweet James” in the sexiest James Brown voice I can muster.

So just to amuse myself, I painted a billboard imagining the star of the show, hardworking, Mr. Dynamite, the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown, as a personal injury attorney.

Acrylic on canvas. Measures 4” x 12”

*extra points if you know the Beastie Boys song that drops a reference to Jacoby & Meyers.

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