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Track List
01) Get Down
01) Introduction: The Everly Family (1952)
02) Keep on Keeping On
02) Mama Tried
03) Underground
03) Less of Me
04) We Got to Have Peace
04) T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)
05) Beautiful Brother of Mine
05) I Wonder If I Care as Much
06) Now You're Gone
06) Ventura Boulevard
07) Love to Keep You In My Mind
07) Shady Grove
08) Underground (Demo)
08) Illinois
09) Get Down (Single)
09) Living Too Close to the Ground
10) We Got to Have Peace (Single)
10) You Done Me Wrong
11) Beautiful Brother of Mine (Single)
11) Turn Around
12) Sing Me Back Home
13) Montage: The Everly Family (1952) / Shady Gr
01) Get Down
01) Introduction: The Everly Family (1952)
02) Keep on Keeping On
02) Mama Tried
03) Underground
03) Less of Me
04) We Got to Have Peace
04) T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)
05) Beautiful Brother of Mine
05) I Wonder If I Care as Much
06) Now You're Gone
06) Ventura Boulevard
07) Love to Keep You In My Mind
07) Shady Grove
08) Underground (Demo)
08) Illinois
09) Get Down (Single)
09) Living Too Close to the Ground
10) We Got to Have Peace (Single)
10) You Done Me Wrong
11) Beautiful Brother of Mine (Single)
11) Turn Around
12) Sing Me Back Home
13) Montage: The Everly Family (1952) / Shady Gr
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First Released
1971
Soul
Carefree
Urban/R&B
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Curtis Mayfield's visionary album, a landmark creation every bit as compelling and as far-reaching in its musical and extra-musical goals as Marvin Gaye's contemporary What's Goin' On. Opening on the hit "Get Down," the album soars on some of the sweetest and most eloquent -- yet driving -- soul sounds heard up to that time. Mayfield's growing musical ambitions, first manifested on the Curtis album, and his more sophisticated political sensibilities, presented with a lot of raw power on Curtis Live!, are pulled together here in a new, richer studio language, embodied in extended song structures ("Underground"), idealistic yet lyrically dazzling anthems ("We Got to Have Peace," "Keep On Keeping On," and, best of all, the soaring "Beautiful Brother of Mine"), and impassioned blues ("Now You're Gone"). The music is even bolder than the material on the Curtis album, with Mayfield expanding his instrumental range to the level of a veritable soul orchestra; and the recording is better realized, as Mayfield, with that album and a tour behind him, shows a degree of confidence that only a handful of soul artists of this era could have mustered. Charly Records had this album out on CD in the 1980s, but Rhino's acquisition of the Curtom catalog in 1996 led to a remastered and expanded reissue in 1999 with superior sound, detailed annotation, and the addition of four bonus tracks. Apart from a slow, funky, stripped-down but eminently listenable demo of "Underground" (which reveals just how sophisticated Mayfield's conceptions -- forget the finished versions -- of his songs were), the latter consist of the single edits of "Get Down," "We Got to Have Peace," and "Beautiful Brother of Mine."
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Curtis Mayfield's visionary album, a landmark creation every bit as compelling and as far-reaching in its musical and extra-musical goals as Marvin Gaye's contemporary What's Goin' On. Opening on the hit "Get Down," the album soars on some of the sweetest and most eloquent -- yet driving -- soul sounds heard up to that time. Mayfield's growing musical ambitions, first manifested on the Curtis album, and his more sophisticated political sensibilities, presented with a lot of raw power on Curtis Live!, are pulled together here in a new, richer studio language, embodied in extended song structures ("Underground"), idealistic yet lyrically dazzling anthems ("We Got to Have Peace," "Keep On Keeping On," and, best of all, the soaring "Beautiful Brother of Mine"), and impassioned blues ("Now You're Gone"). The music is even bolder than the material on the Curtis album, with Mayfield expanding his instrumental range to the level of a veritable soul orchestra; and the recording is better realized, as Mayfield, with that album and a tour behind him, shows a degree of confidence that only a handful of soul artists of this era could have mustered. Charly Records had this album out on CD in the 1980s, but Rhino's acquisition of the Curtom catalog in 1996 led to a remastered and expanded reissue in 1999 with superior sound, detailed annotation, and the addition of four bonus tracks. Apart from a slow, funky, stripped-down but eminently listenable demo of "Underground" (which reveals just how sophisticated Mayfield's conceptions -- forget the finished versions -- of his songs were), the latter consist of the single edits of "Get Down," "We Got to Have Peace," and "Beautiful Brother of Mine."
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