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Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today Audio CD

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Curtis Mayfield Band: Curtis Mayfield
Title: There's No Place Like America Today
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Release Date: 2005-08-30
Media: Audio CD

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Love Curtis Mayfield
I had been looking everywhere for this CD. . My son told me to check with Amazon. com (he said they have everything). . . Sure enough I got the CD and love it. . . Curtis was ahead of his time as reflected in his music. The message in this album reflects the hard times in our lives today. We will always remember Curtis and his tremendous contribution to music.


One of the best
There's no place like America Today is true. This CD is about the world today. There is no place like America. All the songs on this album touch the soul of Curtis Mayfield. I recommend this album to anyone.


Amongst the best of Curtis's brilliant career, haunting, moody, almost sad

This album sort of works as a song cycle. An album that always gets admiration when played. There is a unifying beauty to the arrangements and flow from one song to the next.
On one road trip this was the only cassette that we had to play, and we played it repeatedly never getting tired.

Granted, I worship Curtis Mayfield. He is one of the greatest lyricists of any musical style. His music is consistently mind-blowing.

That said, "No Place. . . " actually outshines much of his other work because of its unifying simple, stripped down, almost hauntingly beautiful feel. This is a great example of how to use horns.

If you like soul music, songwriters, or mellow music, you will not be sorry if you locate this. It excels in each of those areas. Also the cover art is amazing.

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Needs more exposure
Even if most of it pales to his most popular works, these recordings were still made in his relative prime and deserve wider exposure from whatever labels need to make that happen. For an artist of Mayfield's stature, it is surprising to see some of his studio output get such relatively little attention. For seldom can funk flow as gracefully as the lead-off track does here, easily standing side by side with his greatest songs. But the consistency remains. Basically TNPLAT is as good a downtempo work as his most solid, far more popular uptempo stuff. .


There's Nothing Like Finding This CD Today
For awhile it was a two-for CD package and now that's even rare. This is extremely hard to find in 'single' form. Curtis gives us "Billy Jack", a song that never made his last two single Greatest Hits packages. It is only now available on his double 'Anthology' collection and appears on the second volume of the various artists collection 'Superfly Funk'. Lenny Kravitz covered it on the Curtis Mayfield tribute album and has said that it is also his favorite Curtis Mayfield song. This is definitely MY favorite Mayfield composition. Though there were not any STRONG singles released from this album it's still very Funky. When this CD is in my player it definitely gets cranked to extreme decibles. Check this one out and add it to you "Pile O' Funk. .


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