Curtis Mayfield - Curtis (Dlx)
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Artist: Curtis MayfieldBrand: Curtis
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-08-15
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
- (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go
- The Other Side Of Town
- The Makings Of You
- We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
- Move On Up
- Miss Black America
- Wild And Free
- Give It Up
- Power To The People (Demo)
- Underground (Demo)
- Ghetto Child (Demo)
- Readings In Astrology (Demo)
- Suffer (Demo)
- Miss Black America (Demo)
- The Makings Of You (Backing Tracks, Take 32)
- (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go (Backing Tracks, Takes 1 & 2)
- (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go (Edited Single Version)
Music reviews of Curtis (Dlx)
Music Review: Curtis Goes Out For The People
Rating: 5 Stars
At the crucial time when people of most sides of the musical spectrum could (and did) make a successful living out of giving permission for their audience not only to the world around them but also the possibility of taking positive actions to correct what needed to be corrected. Everyone in the R&B world from Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder at Motown to Gil Scott-Heron and Bobby Womack were coming at their music from a similar angle at the time. And it was only appropriate that during this time Curtis Mayfield,one of the few outside Sam Cooke in the late 50's/early 60's to do it all creatively and express a social conscience at the same time would go solo from the Impressions at this time and put his two cents in. Everyone during this time had a unique flavor to how they expressed themselves and Curtis didn't change that on his end. The overall sound of this album is very unique. His music from aggressive,fast paced uptempo songs such as hits "(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go" and "Move On Up" along with songs such as "Wild And Free" and the upbeat and melodic sounding "Miss Black America" not only have some afrocentric jazz/funk percussion and fat bass/guitar lines to them but also some of the dreamiest and fanfaring orchestrations you could find on a funky soul record of this era. Even on numbers such as the humane,slower romantic numbers "The Makings Of You" and the more darkly realistic streetside commentary of "The Other Side Of Town" offer the same effect with the orchestral end of things. Other songs such as "We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue" is a glue appropriatly coming right in the middle of the album,not only bridging the musical stylings this album presents but also crossess bridges by starting out slow and plaintive and spinning off into another percussion groove. All of this could be easily seen coming on Curtis's final few releases with the Impressions,especially the multi-partison "teaching" approch Curtis takes to delivering lyrics about everything from cultural concerns,poverty,freedom and romance. As much as the original album pulled everything together so well and is about as close to a well rounded and powerful debut as one could possibly ask for the huge amount of bonus tracks are a lot more illustrative than you might think. Demos songs such as "Power To The People","Ghetto Child","Readings In Astrology" and the slower and shorter "Suffer" not only showcase early versions of songs on the original album while still in the ether but the slinky,clean yet psychedelic basslines and guitar work for Mayfield and how crucial they are to the songs stripped from the produced and orchestral settings. The remainders are either demos of different instrumental takes of songs on the actual album,the most notable part of which is where Curtis is heard announcing a take of "Don't Worry If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go" and one of the musicians responds "That's a hell of a statement". And that could actually serve as my own six word review of this album if you will;from the music,lyrical focus to the strengh of the songwriting and production itself this is one of those oft referred "neglected classics" that...well may not be as neglected as we think and if so there's a good reason.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: MAYFIELD,CURTIS
Title: CURTIS
Street Release Date: 08/15/2000
Genre: SOUL/R & B
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