Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
The Impressions
This Is My Country
(Curtom, 1968)
Curtis Mayfield moves from church and love to politics and the streets
Could be my imagination, but in the past few years Curtis Mayfield seems to have slipped off the soul map. His death in 1999 was followed by a superfluity of reissues, but now, with Motown and Stax re-releases stacked tall, this profoundly influential soul man seems undervalued. Time to put that right. His late-’60s Impressions LPs were a turning point, shrugging off the overtly romantic, doo-wop vestiges of the early ’60s, while signposting the socio-politics of his outstanding early ’70s solo albums. On this first album for his Curtom label, This Is My Country (the very title spun from pride to disgust and despair by a cover shot of the trio amid the wreckage of a half-demolished tenement block) and They Don’t Know engage the intellect while Fool For You and Gone Away, in particular, speak to the heart as of old. Throughout, Curtis’s beautiful high tenor has an exquisite, caressing tone. The truths of his Chicago soul were both city-specific and universal.
Geoff Brown
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 29/12/2007
Further Listening
The Impressions – Big 16 (HMV, 1965)
Curtis Mayfield – Curtis (Rhino, 1970)
Gladys Knight & The Pips – Claudine (Buddah, 1974)
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