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Will I keep choosing the wrong Curtis Mayfield album to review?
Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu May 27, 2021 7:28 pm
Instrumental bit.
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by Nightjar Thu May 27, 2021 7:28 pm
Classic serpentine Curtis guitar moves. 
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by Nightjar Thu May 27, 2021 7:28 pm
:bongobanana:
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu May 27, 2021 7:29 pm
Track 6 - Now You're Gone.
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu May 27, 2021 7:29 pm
Gone a bit Bluesey.
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by Nightjar Thu May 27, 2021 7:30 pm
A bit like "The Thrill is Gone" by B.B. King.
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by Nightjar Thu May 27, 2021 7:31 pm
He's really really unique and original.
There was no one before like him and there'll never be again.
There was no one before like him and there'll never be again.
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by Nightjar Thu May 27, 2021 7:34 pm
It's like a complete reinvention of the tradition of the big jazz/R&B band format.
Ellington, Basie et al, as reimagined for the radical black consciousness era and the '70s musical aesthetic.
Ellington, Basie et al, as reimagined for the radical black consciousness era and the '70s musical aesthetic.
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu May 27, 2021 7:34 pm
Hints of Daytripper in the horns.
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by Nightjar Thu May 27, 2021 7:35 pm
I could even imagine Ella Fitzgerald or Billy Holiday singing these lead vocal parts.
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu May 27, 2021 7:35 pm
Last track - Love to Keep You in My Mind.
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by Nightjar Thu May 27, 2021 7:36 pm
An oddly simple and straight-forward love song to wrap things up...
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by Nightjar Thu May 27, 2021 7:37 pm
Showcasing his idiosyncratic loose, free-form method of revolving the music around a sweetly vague vocal performance.
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by Nightjar Thu May 27, 2021 7:40 pm
Well, that was glorious.
One of his best albums.
One of his best albums.
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu May 27, 2021 7:40 pm
It is over.
It was perfectly proficient and had a good feel to it but the songs were very weak and every track went on for far too long.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
It was perfectly proficient and had a good feel to it but the songs were very weak and every track went on for far too long.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
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Re: Curtis Mayfield - Roots (1971)
by The Call of the Wendigo Thu May 27, 2021 7:40 pm
I shall give it 3 stars.
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