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Artist [Curtis Mayfield ] ██▒
Label [MusicWave ] Genre [Funk ] ██░
Quality/Size [44,1 @VBR 84,1 MB] Ripped [05-31-2004 ] ▒██
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(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Goin██
02 03:42 Move On Up ██
03 05:26 Freddie's Dead ██
04 03:54 Superfly ██
05 03:37 Future Shock ██
06 03:50 Kung Fu ██
07 03:52 Sweet Exorcist ██
08 03:58 Soul Music ██
09 03:47 Party Night ██
10 03:41 Do It All Night ██
11 03:46 This Year ██
12 03:54 Tripping Out ██
13 04:40 Something To Believe In ██
14 03:51 Love's Sweet Sensation ██
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14 59:48 min ██
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Perhaps because he didn't cross over to the pop audience as ██░
heavily as Motown's stars, it may be that the scope of ██
Curtis Mayfield's talents and contributions have yet to be ██
fully recognized. Judged merely by his records alone, the ██
man's legacy is enormous. As the leader of the Impressions, ██
he recorded some of the finest soul vocal group music of the ██
1960s. As a solo artist in the 1970s, he helped pioneer funk ██
and helped introduce hard-hitting urban commentary into soul ██
music. "Gypsy Woman," "It's All Right," "People Get Ready," ██
"Freddie's Dead," and "Superfly" are merely the most famous ██
of his many hit records. ██
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But Curtis Mayfield wasn't just a singer. He wrote most of ██
his material at a time when that was not the norm for soul ██
performers. He was among the first -- if not the very first ██
-- to speak openly about African-American pride and ██
community struggle in his compositions. As a songwriter and ██
a producer, he was a key architect of Chicago soul, penning ██
material and working on sessions by notable Windy City ██
soulsters like Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, Major Lance, and ██
Billy Butler. In this sense, he can be compared to Smokey ██
Robinson, who also managed to find time to write and produce ██
many classics for other soul stars. Mayfield was also an ██
excellent guitarist, and his rolling, Latin-influenced lines ██
were highlights of the Impressions' recordings in the '60s. ██
During the next decade, he would toughen up his guitar work ██
and production, incorporating some of the best features of ██
psychedelic rock and funk. ██
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Mayfield began his career as an associate of Jerry Butler, ██
with whom he formed the Impressions in the late '50s. After ██
the Impressions had a big hit in 1958 with "For Your ██
Precious Love," Butler, who had sung lead on the record, ██
split to start a solo career. Mayfield, while keeping the ██
Impressions together, continued to write for and tour with ██
Butler before the Impressions got their first Top 20 hit in ██
1961, "Gypsy Woman." ██
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Mayfield was heavily steeped in gospel music before he ██
entered the pop arena, and gospel, as well as doo wop, ██
influences would figure prominently in most of his '60s ██
work. Mayfield wasn't a staunch traditionalist, however. He ██
and the Impressions may have often worked the ██
call-and-response gospel style, but his songs (romantic and ██
otherwise) were often veiled or unveiled messages of black ██
pride, reflecting the increased confidence and ██
self-determination of the African-American community. ██
Musically he was an innovator as well, using arrangements ██
that employed the punchy, blaring horns and Latin-influenced ██
rhythms that came to be trademark flourishes of Chicago ██
soul. As the staff producer for the OKeh label, Mayfield was ██
also instrumental in lending his talents to the work of ██
other Chi-town soul singers who went on to national success. ██
With Mayfield singing lead and playing guitar, the ██
Impressions had 14 Top 40 hits in the 1960s (five made the ██
Top 20 in 1964 alone), and released some above-average ██
albums during that period as well. ██
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Given Mayfield's prodigious talents, it was perhaps ██
inevitable that he would eventually leave the Impressions to ██
begin a solo career, as he did in 1970. His first few ██
singles boasted a harder, more funk-driven sound; singles ██
like "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Gonna ██
Go" found him confronting ghetto life with a realism that ██
had rarely been heard on record. He really didn't hit his ██
artistic or commercial stride as a solo artist, though, ██
until Superfly, his soundtrack to a 1972 blaxploitation ██
film. Drug deals, ghetto shootings, the death of young black ██
men before their time: all were described in penetrating ██
detail. Yet Mayfield's irrepressible falsetto vocals, ██
uplifting melodies, and fabulous funk pop arrangements gave ██
the oft-moralizing material a graceful strength that few ██
others could have achieved. For all the glory of his past ██
work, Superfly stands as his crowning achievement, not to ██
mention a much-needed counterpoint to the sensationalistic ██
portrayals of the film itself. ██
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At this point Mayfield, along with Stevie Wonder and Marvin ██
Gaye, was the foremost exponent of a new level of compelling ██
auteurism in soul. His failure to maintain the standards of ██
Superfly qualifies as one of the great disappointments in ██
the history of black popular music. Perhaps he'd simply ██
reached his peak after a long climb, but the rest of his ██
'70s work didn't match the musical brilliance and lyrical ██
subtleties of Superfly, although he had a few large R&B hits ██
in a much more conventional vein, such as "Kung Fu," "So in ██
Love," and "Only You Babe." ██
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Mayfield had a couple of hits in the early '80s, but the ██
decade generally found his commercial fortunes in a steady ██
downward spiral, despite some intermittent albums. On August ██
14, 1990, he became paralyzed from the neck down when a ██
lighting rig fell on top of him at a concert in Brooklyn, ██
NY. In the mid-'90s, a couple of tribute albums consisting ██
of Mayfield covers appeared, with contributions by such ██
superstars as Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, and Gladys ██
Knight. Though no substitute for the man himself, these ██
tributes served as an indication of the enormous regard in ██
which Mayfield was still held by his peers. He died December ██
26, 1999 at the age of 57. ██
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