Superfly
Released: July 1972
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Released: July 1972
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The choice of Curtis Mayfield to score the blaxploitation film Superfly was an inspired one. No other artist in popular music knew so well, and expressed through his music so naturally, the shades...
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Back to the World
Released: May 1973
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Released: May 1973
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Back to the World, the first album Curtis Mayfield recorded and released after hitting number one with the intense inner-city vignette Superfly, returned him to a steady balance of optimism for the...
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Curtis in Chicago
Released: 1973
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Released: 1973
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Released just two years after the intimate club set Curtis/Live!, Curtis in Chicago consists of a different kind of show, a dream concert celebrating Curtis Mayfield's musical history and Curtom...
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Early Years with the Impressions
Released: 1973
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Released: 1973
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Until ABC/Paramount issued a good two-record anthology in the late '70s, and then MCA issued the definitive Mayfield/Impressions package in 1992, this was one of the better retrospective sets...
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Of All Time: Classic Collection
Released: 1990
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Released: 1990
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This anthology spotlights Curtis Mayfield's biggest hits as a solo star since 1970. It includes his first hit as a lead artist, "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go," plus...
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Got to Find a Way
Released: 1974
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Released: 1974
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Curtis Mayfield continued his run of excellent albums in the '70s with this follow-up to the huge hit Superfly soundtrack. This album had more love songs than some of his earlier material, although...
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Sweet Exorcist
Released: 1974
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Released: 1974
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Curtis Mayfield hit a stride during the '70s that was unparalleled among R&B/soul performers from an album standpoint. He was writing, producing, arranging, and performing on great album after...
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There's No Place Like America Today
Released: 1975
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Released: 1975
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The title is intended in an ironic way, as illustrated not only by the cover -- a grim parody of late-'40s/early-'50s advertising imagery depicting white versus black social reality -- but the grim...
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Never Say You Can't Survive
Released: 1977
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Released: 1977
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Never Say You Can't Survive was the last Curtis Mayfield album done in a pure soul vein for the next three years -- its style and sound place it in a direct continuity with the rest of his output...
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Heartbeat
Released: 1979
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Released: 1979
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A thinking man's soul singer, whose abilities combined the lyrical passions of Marvin Gaye with the musical range of Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield proved singularly unsuited to the disco era, at least...
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