Mr. Starks, a mostly self-taught musician, modeled himself after the blues and R&B drummers he watched as a child in Mobile, where he avoided age restrictions at a local club by sitting on a milk crate with his eye glued to a hole in the wall. He played with the electrifying rhythm-and-blues singer Bobby …
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Jab'o Starks, drummer who kept the beat for James Brown, dies at 79
