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Roots (Remaster) (CD)

By: Curtis Mayfield (Artist)

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Curtis Mayfield Artist Snapshot:

After leaving his position as leader of the Impressions, one of the most successful black vocal groups of the 1960s, Curtis Mayfield made progressive and highly influential funk/R&B records, most notably the soundtrack to the cult movie SUPERFLY. His unique, simultaneous rhythm/lead guitar style and fragile falsetto vocals have been much imitated but never duplicated. In 1990, Mayfield was the victim of an onstage accident that made him a quadriplegic, but it didn't stop him from making music. He released an album of new material in '96, though he would pass away three years later.

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DISC 1 for Roots (Remaster) (CD) Album By Curtis Mayfield (Artist)
1   Get Down
2   Keep On Keeping On
3   Underground
4   We Got To Have Peace
5   Beautiful Brother Of Mine
6   Now You're Gone
7   Love To Keep You In My Mind
8   Underground - (demo version)
9   Get Down - (single version)
10   We Got To Have Peace - (single version)
11   Beautiful Brother Of Mine - (single version)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (2/3/00, p.53) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...its great curiosity is the extended mixed metaphor 'Underground,' which signifies hell, mines, revolutionary cadres and sub-rosa discrimination, among other things. Or so it seems."

Title Note

Additional personnel includes: Riley Hampton, Johnny Pate (arranger).

Reissue producers: Curtis Mayfield, David McLees.

Recorded at RCA Studios, Chicago, Illinois. Originally released on Curtom Records. Includes liner notes by A. Scott Galloway.

All tracks have ben digitally remastered.

ROOTS is an essential Curtis Mayfield album. Released in 1971 when he was 29 years old, this set of songs is by turns wise, world-weary, spiritual, and mostly full of love and hope. The album was his follow-up to the successful CURTIS/LIVE set. Extensive touring and performance had infused Mayfield's technique with a casual grace mingled with just enough tension to underscore the edginess of some of his subject matter. This album yielded three hits: the propulsive "Get Down," the gorgeous, big production of "Beautiful Brother Of Mine," and the incessant and catchy "We Got To Have Peace." Throughout the album, Mayfield's blending of strings with his core electric band is rich and dazzling. The contrast between his soft-but-forceful vocals and the harder underlying grooves is always compelling. In fact, Curtis Mayfield's singing set the style that led directly to Prince later in the '70s.

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