CURTIS MAYFIELD — Curtis (1970-2000) RM | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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. There was only one hit single off of this record, "(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Down Below We're All Going to Go," which made number three, but the album as a whole was a single entity and really had to be heard that way. Bruce Eder
Tracklist :
1.    (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go    7:51
2.    The Other Side Of Town    4:02
3.    The Makings Of You    3:44
4.    We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue    6:06
5.    Move On Up    8:54
6.    Miss Black America    2:59
7.    Wild And Free    3:16
8.    Give It Up    3:49
– BONUS TRACKS –
9.    Power To The People (Demo)    2:47
10.    Underground (Demo)    3:12
11.    Ghetto Child (Demo)    5:10
12.    Readings In Astrology (Demo)    3:31
13.    Suffer (Demo) 2:32
Written-By – Donny Hathaway
14.    Miss Black America (Demo)    2:23
15.    The Makings Of You (Backing Tracks, Take 32)    4:35
16.    (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go (Backing Tracks, Take 1 & 2)    9:35
17.    (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go (Edited Single Version)    3:27
Credits :
Contractor – Marvin Heiman
Musician (1-8) – Robert Lewis, Clifford Davis, Donald Simmons, Elliot Golub, Gary Slabo, Harold Klatz, Harold Dessent, Harold Lepp, Henry Gibson, John Howell, John Ross, Leonard Druss, Loren Binford, Patrick Ferreri, Philip Upchurch, Richard Single, Robert Sims, Ronald Kolber, Rudolph Stauber, Sam Heiman, Sol Bobrob
Arranged By – Gary Slabo (tracks: 1 to 8), Riley Hampton (tracks: 1 to 8)
Producer, Written-By – Curtis Mayfield