The Next Step (James Brown album)

ReleasedAugust 27, 2002

Recorded2002

GenreSoul, funk

Length54:20

The Next Step
Studio album by James Brown
Released	August 27, 2002
Recorded	2002
Genre	Soul, funk
Length	54:20
Label	Fome Records
Producer	Derrick "New Funk" Monk
James Brown chronology
The Merry Christmas Album (1999) The Next Step (2002) The Federal Years 1956-1960 (2006)
Singles from The Next Step
"Killing Is Out, School Is In" Released: 2001

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[1]

The Next Step is the 59th and final studio album by American musician James Brown. The album was released on August 27, 2002, by Fome Records.^[2]

"The following year he was the subject of a PBS American Masters documentary, James Brown: Soul Survivor. He continued performing well into the first decade of the 2000s, appearing at the second Bonnaroo festival in 2003, at the Edinburgh Live 8 concert in 2005, and setting out on his "Seven Decades Of Funk World Tour" in 2006."^[3]

Brown died of congestive heart failure due to complications from pneumonia on December 25, 2006, four years after The Next Step was released.^[3]