Curtis Mayfield : CURTIS; VINYL LP 1970 exc. Gatefold sleeve.
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Curtis Mayfield : CURTIS; VINYL LP 1970 excellent condition.
2318 015 Buddah Records
Clean shiny vinyl and plays really well. Very slight surface noise on run in and start of both sides but then nice clean crisp sound.with very occasional crackle. Manually cleaned before dispatch to ensure best sound possible. Minor scuffs, bumps, and creases (one scratch mark about 4" long down right side of front cover ) to sleeve (of course - it's nearly 49 years old!) ; overall sleeve rated GOOD - you'd be lucky to find a VINYL copy in better condition at this price. Features a superb 9mt 30 sec version of Move on Up.
Further photos available on request. Please feel free to ask any questions. Multiple record purchases will be combined in posting where possible to save you money.
AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder
The first solo album by the former leader of the Impressions, Curtis represented a musical apotheosis for Curtis Mayfield -- indeed, it was practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul, helping with its content and its success to open the whole genre to much bigger, richer musical canvases than artists had previously worked with. All of Mayfield's years of experience of life, music, and people were pulled together into a rich, powerful, topical musical statement that reflected not only the most up-to-date soul sounds of its period, finely produced by Mayfield himself, and the immediacy of the times and their political and social concerns, but also embraced the most elegant R&B sounds of the past. As a producer, Mayfield embraced the most progressive soul sounds of the era, stretching them out compellingly on numbers like "Move on Up," but he also drew on orchestral sounds (especially harps), to achieve some striking musical timbres (check out "Wild and Free"), and wove all of these influences, plus the topical nature of the songs, into a neat, amazingly lean whole.
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