Mayfield, Curtis - Curtis - New LP

  Essential debut solo album from Mayfield after his work with the Impressions, written, published and produced by Curtis, issued on this own Curtom label, featuring his talents as singer, songwriter and guitarist, prying open Pandora's box with a switchblade knife to give us a long look at realities of life, full of pain and full of hope.  This one cuts deep into the heart of the listener, and deep into the heart of America.  (Marvin Gaye had to be listening to this one as he was forming both What's Going On and Let's Get it On.) Mayfield had already permanently changed the face of the music with his contributions to the Impressions, joining the group as a young teenager in the 1950s, staying with them through the 1960s, and writing or co-writing so many timeless and timely classics, perhaps not as proficient as Holland-Dozier-Holland, but probably as influential, in other words likely as influential as any songwriter that walked the earth, clearly having a huge influence on all the g