Curtis Mayfield Live

Personnel: Curtis Mayfield (vocals, guitar); Craig McMullen (guitar); Joseph "Lucky" Scott (bass); Tyrone McCullen (drums); Henry Gibson (bongos, congas, tumbas).Producer: Curtis Mayfield.Reissue producer: Michael Wesley Johnson.Recorded live at The Bitter End, New York, New York in January 1971 & WTTV-TV, Chicago, Illinois in September 1973. Originally released on Curton/Buddah (CRS-8005). Includes liner notes by David Nathan.Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch (DigiPrep).Curtis/Live! is, simply, one of the greatest concert albums ever cut on a soul artist, and one of the legendary live albums of all time. Cut in January of 1971 during four nights at The Bitter End (then Greenwich Village's leading music venue) in New York, the resulting double LP transcended any expectations in both its programming and execution -- Mayfield performed numbers off of the Curtis album ("[Don't Worry] If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go"), as well as exciting and urgent new versions of songs