Music legend James Brown has a new single coming out, and here's how you can pre-order it

A previously unreleased single by Augusta musical legend James Brown is available for pre-order before its official release, according to the world’s largest music company.

“We Got to Change” is a three-track EP compiled from a 1970 recording session, according to titan Universal Music Group. It would mark one of the first musical collaborations between Brown, bassist “Bootsy” Collins and his brother guitarist “Catfish” Collins, who would help comprise the core of what would become The J.B.’s, Brown’s tight backup band through the 1970s and early 1980s.

UMG’s Universal Music Enterprises and recording label Republic Records delivered the announcement Thursday. UME is the UMG division that curates the creative musical output of many of the world’s most famous entertainers, including Brown’s.

The scheduled Feb. 16 release of “We Got to Change” – not to be confused with Brown’s 1959 song “I’ve Got to Change” – will precede the Feb. 19-20 release of a two-day, four-hour A&E documentary on the Godfather of Soul titled “James Brown: Say It Loud.” Celebrity executive producers attached to the documentary include rock icon Mick Jagger and hip-hop musician Questlove.

Have a listen: A brief clip from "We Got to Change," James Brown's forthcoming "new" single from 1970

Brown cut the “Change” recording Aug. 16, 1970, at Criteria Studios in Miami during a professionally challenging period of his life, according to UME. In March nearly all the members of his James Brown Orchestra had quit to form a new touring band under longtime multi-instrument Brown sideman Maceo Parker.

Looking for a band that knew his songbook by heart, Brown found the Collins brothers and several of their bandmates from a Cincinnati group called The Pacesetters.

The recording also marks a reunion between Brown and drummer Clyde Stubblefield, who performed with Brown in the 1960s. Just months before the “Change” recording session, he had recorded another Brown hit, “Funky Drummer.” Stubblefield’s 20-second percussion break in that song has become one of the most widely sampled tracks in the history of recorded music, featured in at least 1,300 other recordings.

The musicians on “Change” also can be heard on Brown’s 1970 double album, “Sex Machine,” that was recorded first but was released just weeks after “Change” was recorded.

The new single can be pre-added to the digital music streaming services Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Tidal and Deezer.

This article originally appeared on Augusta Chronicle: Unreleased James Brown song from 1970 to hit streaming services soon