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 »