Curtis Mayfield – Roots

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Curtis Mayfield – Roots
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Artist……………: Curtis Mayfield
Album…………….: Roots
Genre…………….: Soul
Source……………: CD
Year……………..: 1971
Ripper……………: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode)
Codec…………….: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version…………..: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality…………..: Lossless, (avg. compression: 61 %)
Channels………….: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags……………..: VorbisComment
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Ripped by…………: MidnightRocker on 5/5/2010
Posted by…………: AJ Productions on 8/12/2013
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Tracklisting
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1. Curtis Mayfield – Get Down [05:48]
2. Curtis Mayfield – Keep on Keeping On [05:10]
3. Curtis Mayfield – Underground [05:17]
4. Curtis Mayfield – We Got to Have Peace [04:47]
5. Curtis Mayfield – Beautiful Brother of Mine [07:27]
6. Curtis Mayfield – Now You’re Gone [06:52]
7. Curtis Mayfield – Love to Keep You In My Mind [03:56]
8. Curtis Mayfield – Underground (Demo) [03:17]
9. Curtis Mayfield – Get Down (Single) [03:55]
10. Curtis Mayfield – We Got to Have Peace (Single) [03:39]
11. Curtis Mayfield – Beautiful Brother of Mine (Single) [03:09]

Playing Time………: 53:22
Total Size………..: 333.69 MB

NFO generated on…..: 8/12/2013 9:23:19 PM

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By Bruce Eder All Music Guide

Curtis Mayfield’s visionary album, a landmark creation every bit as
compelling and as 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. Charly Records had this album
out on CD in the 1980s, but Rhino’s acquisition of the Curtom catalog
in 1996 led to a remastered and expanded reissue in 1999 with
superior sound, detailed annotation, and the addition of four bonus
tracks. Apart from a slow, funky, stripped-down but eminently
listenable demo of “Underground” (which reveals just how
sophisticated Mayfield’s conceptions — forget the finished versions — of
his songs were), the latter consist of the single edits of “Get Down,”
“We Got to Have Peace,” and “Beautiful Brother of Mine.” They seem
redundant after the album versions, though they don’t detract at all
from the extraordinary value of this mid-priced CD.
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