Love Is The Place

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Total Tracks: 8   Total Length: 35:58

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Icon: Curtis Mayfield

By Michelangelo Matos, eMusic Contributor

Few musicians deserve the word "icon" the way Curtis Mayfield did. He was one of R&B's self-contained giants: co-founder of Curtom Records in 1968, the most skillful politically and socially-oriented songwriter of the late '60s and early '70s (as well as a romantic bard of the first order), a sweet and supple falsetto vocalist, and one of the most influential guitarists in all of soul and funk. He was the driving force behind the Impressions,… more »

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A CD reissue of an old Mayfield platter that didn’t garner as much interest as some of his other solo releases, and for good reason: Mayfield was experimenting with his sound. After the first three songs nothing else really works until the last cut: “Come Free Your People,” one of Mayfield’s best albeit little-known message songs. The most engaging of the eight tunes are the reggae-influenced “She Don’t Love Nobody Else,” “Toot an’ Toot an’ Toot,” and the lilting “Baby Doll.” – Andrew Hamilton