CURTIS MAYFIELD - ROOTS LP NEW SEALED
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Description
CURTIS MAYFIELD
'Roots'
Originally released 1971
This is a reissue
Gatefold sleeve
Although brand new and sealed, there is a small corner bump on the bottom right corner of the sleeve (please see picture)
Get Down
Keep On Keeping On
Underground
We Got To Have Peace
Beautiful Brother Of Mine
Now You're Gone
Love To Keep You In My Mind
Roots is Curtis Mayfield's visionary album, a landmark creation every bit as compelling and 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.
Although brand new and sealed, there is a small corner bump on the bottom right corner of the sleeve (please see picture)
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