Charles Bradley - The World (Is Going Up in Flames) (Live on KEXP)

Charles Bradley, backed by The Menahan Street Band, performs "The World (Is Going Up in Flames)" live from Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop in Austin, TX, during KEXP's broadcast at SXSW. Recorded 3/17/2011.

[Logan-geqm]

People at this show didn't realize how important this recording will become.

Thanks you Charles.

[geekrockrats]

I don't care how bad a day is, the fact that this music still exists is enough to smile

[Chichoed]

Who is listening to this tremendous hit right now 2020?

[GabrielCaramalac]

When u make music for art and not just for money, u make things like that. Awesome and beautiful!

[kennysmith]

Charles Bradley is by far one of the greatest soul musicians of this generation. Soul hits very close to the heart and unfortunately most people have over loved that. Personally Charles Bradley will always have a place in my heart.
RIP Charles Bradley ❤️

[uptowndowntown]

This song sums up the first 3 months of 2020

[ethanprew]

Unfortunately I hadn't discovered Charles Bradley for myself tell after he passed but this is so timeless It doesn't really matter

[helene]

This man kissed me on the forehead at Osheaga! See him live, legend in the making

[jjjjjjjj]

you know it's going to be good because he's sweating and the song hasn't even started yet

[HB-cgjv]

when everybody ditched this style, charles stuck with it til the end and delivered these masterpieces to us, thank you charles, may you rest in peace

[toothpastehombre]

Cities all across the US are up in flames this weekend. Communities are hurting. Cities are burning. People are broken and crying out for change. Charles Bradley, your music is still ministering hope and understanding. God do we need it now more than ever

[MarinaDoulis]

Y'all know he's jammin up in heaven right now. Rest in Peace Charles Bradley, thank you for putting your soul out there for all of us the way you did.

[qtfan]

I'll never forget the time I saw Charles Bradley perform live. August 31, 2011. It was a tiny venue in a hangout area on my school's campus, with a stage and setup thrown together in a relative hurry by the student-run radio station who had managed to get him to perform here and that I was a part of, and there was a small assembled crowd of what couldn't have been more than 50 people who were in attendance, but he played as loudly and passionately and soulfully as if he were in a sold-out auditorium of 50, 000 and we were all to a one in the palm of his hand from start to finish. While my memories of that night are somewhat scattered and more feelings than actually recallable and definitive, I have one clear memory that sticks in my head. It was when I had somehow managed to find myself front and center, not 5 feet directly in front of the man himself, and with only a microphone and a 3 inch tall stage between us he opened his arms wide and let out a soulful wail that could pierce a heart of the hardest and coldest stone in the next county over. That moment will stick with me forever, as will my appreciation for the man and his music.
RIP Mr. Bradley, and thank you for all that you were able to give us

[dodochagas]

R.I.P Man, we will miss you and your amazing voice!
Your brazilian fan

[nicoladouglas]

HEY ELITES !!! keep your Evil hands off this guy!!! He's full of LIGHT !!!! He the voice in all us

[Charlie-zble]

charles doesnt get the recongintion he deserves truly one of the best. RIP

[flesh-planetcongregation]

I don't even like soul music, but goddamn... that voice rivals that of God's.
right on Charles Bradley

[thewhoclashes]

What Charles Bradley does is he travels with only his horn player, and then he has local artists play with him during performances; hands down one of the best artists I have ever seen in my life (:

[joebutler]

RIP Charles, the world is a lesser place for you no longer in it.

[ronbarrett]

Rest easy Charles. You had a tough life. Thank you for some excellent music. Tragic he did not get the attention and recognition he deserved