Black gospel/funk/psychedelic innovators, the Chambers Brothers had
an enthusiastic following in the late '60s. The four brothers grew
up in a poverty-stricken Mississippi sharecropping family and first
sang together at the Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Lee County.
George, the eldest, was drafted into the army in 1952. Once
discharged, he gravitated to south L.A. and was eventually joined
by his...