Sold Date: March 11, 2021
Start Date: March 6, 2021
Final Price: £18.95 (GBP)
Seller Feedback: 9407
Buyer Feedback: 0

CURTIS MAYFIELD

'Curtis'

Originally released 1970

This reissue released 2019

Yellow vinyl

Limited edition

Gatefold sleeve

Although brand new and sealed, there is a small corner bump/creasing on the bottom right corner and there is a crease along the top edge (please see pictures).

 (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

The first solo album by the former leader of the Impressions, Curtis represented a musical apotheosis for Curtis Mayfield -- indeed, it was practically the "Sgt. Pepper's" album of '70s soul, helping with its content and its success to open the whole genre to much bigger, richer musical canvases than artists had previously worked with. All of Mayfield's years of experience of life, music, and people were pulled together into a rich, powerful, topical musical statement that reflected not only the most up-to-date soul sounds of its period, finely produced by Mayfield himself, and the immediacy of the times and their political and social concerns, but also embraced the most elegant R&B sounds of the past. As a producer, Mayfield embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era, stretching them out compellingly on numbers like "Move on Up," but he also drew on orchestral sounds (especially harps), to achieve some striking musical timbres (check out "Wild and Free"), and wove all of these influences, plus the topical nature of the songs, into a neat, amazingly lean whole. There was only one hit single off of this record, "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Down Below We're All Going to Go," which made number three, but the album as a whole was a single entity and really had to be heard that way.

Although brand new and sealed, there is a small corner bump/creasing on the bottom right corner and there is a crease along the top edge (please see pictures).

If you have any questions,please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Thanks for looking.