CURTIS MAYFIELD MFSL SUPERFLY ROOTS SWEET EXCORCIST LOVE SONGS 2 6 LP SET+24K CD

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CURTIS MAYFIELD COLLECTION OF SIX TITLES - WITH FOUR MANUFACTURED BY RHINO RECORDS BEFORE BARCODES WERE EVER PLACED ON LP JACKETS SO EACH JACKET IS PRISTINE COLLECTORS JACKETS THOSE TITLES ARE - SWEET EXCORCIST + ROOTS & CURTIS LP 

THEN WE HAVE LOVE SONGS VOLUME 2 VERY RARE OUT OF PRINT GET BACK RECORDS EDITION THAT SELLS FOR OVER $100 A SEALED COPY

PLUS MFSL 1ST EDITION EVER ON 45 RPM AUDIOPHILE NUMBERED MASTERPIECE DOUBLE LP SET - SUPERFLY Rated the 63rd best recording in the history of Rock N Roll

PLUS THE AUDIOPHILE CURTIS/LIVE DOUBLE 180 GRAM SET -

+ MFSL 24 KARAT GOLD CD LIMITED EDITION NUMBERED AUDIOPHILE OF CURTIS TITLE FOR YOUR HOME & CAR STEREO  

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MFSL 45 RPM AUDIOPHILE NUMBERED MASTERPIECE DOUBLE LP SET - SUPERFLY Rated the 63rd best recording in the history of Rock N Roll - I guess the only thing to argue is whether SUPERFLY or Shaft was the better album soundtrack . Either way, this is a great piece of music. Curtis Mayfield had a musical career which spanned decades, and moved from the gospel roots of the Impressions to the soundtrack of a movie which glorified drug dealing. Social sensibilities aside, it is hard to say anything bad about this music. Curtis' voice was sweet and plaintive in songs like "Eddie, you Should've Known Better", and "Little Child, Running Wild". Of course, he is like a one man Greek Chorus, as his songs tell of the strife which the movie characters face with their life's choices. Songs like "Superfly" and of course “Freddie's Dead” let us know via the radio what was happening on the screen. This album is still as fresh today as it was DECADES ago.  

 Curtis Mayfield Superfly on Numbered Limited Edition!

Strictly Limited to 4,000 Numbered Copies!
180g 45RPM 2LP from Mobile Fidelity!
Pressed at RTI!

A Master Stroke of Boundary-Crossing Music, Brilliant Production, Smart Storytelling, and Vital Social Commentary: Curtis Mayfield's Lushly Orchestrated Superfly Is a Cultural Signpost

Curtis Mayfield's border-transcending Superfly is much more than a soundtrack to a cutting-edge blaxploitation film. Recorded in 1972 to coincide with Gordon Parks, Jr's movie about a dealer attempting to divorce himself from the urban underworld, Mayfield's brilliantly orchestrated set ignited an entire genre, expanded the scope of R&B, and spurred dialogues surrounding significant social issues ranging from the unvarnished consequences of hustling to the realities of African-American lives in America. Rightly deemed by Rolling Stone "Marvin Gaye's What's Going On at a street level" and named the 69th Greatest Album of All Time by the magazine, Superfly endures as an astonishing master stroke of boundary-crossing soul, lyrical smarts, and vital commentary. Mobile Fidelity's reissue brings it – and its of-the-moment contents – to life like never before.

Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's world-renowned mastering system, cut at 45RPM for the first time, pressed at RTI, and strictly limited to 4,000 numbered copies, this 180g 45RPM 2LP set of Superfly presents Mayfield's vision with widescreen sonics worthy of its cinematic reach. The extra groove space afforded by the 45RPM edition changes everything and explodes the wealth of aural information. Separation between the seemingly countless instruments, the myriad timbres of Mayfield's voice, the ambitious breadth and crucial shifts of the strings, the probing reach of the lean albeit direction-leading bass: You've never heard Superfly sound so vibrant, realistic, or immediate. Surpassing the status of an album, the 1972 effort comes across here as an audiophile-vetted cultural signpost – an epic on the order of Duke Ellington's Black, Brown & Beige, Miles Davis' A Tribute to Jack Johnson, and Gaye's aforementioned manifesto.

As Mobile Fidelity's restored version proves, few records mesh lush delicacy with such pressing urgency to the extent heard on Superfly. Mayfield's arrangements now breathe and exhale with palpable air, revealing an astounding degree of openness and dynamics that places the musicians on a grand soundstage. On par with the finest big-studio productions of the '60s and '70s, Mobile Fidelity's Superfly bursts with colors and details – with the mind-boggling array of individual threads forming a seamless tapestry involving guitars, woodwinds, horns, singing, and melodies. The presentation of the wah-wah effects, accenting rhythms of the brass rejoinders, and mood-setting aura of the strings are alone enough to make Phil Spector or Brian Wilson blush. No prior R&B work simultaneously crossed as many lines, painted such vivid portraits, and maintained such streetwise cool.

No wonder Superfly kickstarted the genre of blaxploitation music. Yes, Isaac Hayes' Shaft arrived nearly a year earlier. Apart to their fundamental relationship to the style, however, the records are worlds apart. Mayfield's creation stands as a fully realized track-by-track immersion into urban neighborhoods, mindsets, and lives that doubles as both boots-on-the-ground reportage and an emotionally loaded wake-up call. Primarily singing in a light falsetto that underscores the conflicting feelings of sympathy, anger, sadness, sensuality, toughness, desperation, and fear harbored by the protagonists, the Chicago native dispenses hard truths and critical perspectives without ever preaching or taking sides. The results pulse with the same vitality as they did four decades ago, wth Mayfield's narratives echoing with biographical and descriptive details rather than choosing a celebratory or exploitative route.
As skillful as Mayfield's words remain, the music blows them away. Superfly works on multiple levels – a record whose deep grooves and avalanche of funk-derived riffs express basically everything that needs to be said. Each song inhabits its own geographical and personal landscape, their lasting appeal a testament to the album becoming one of the few soundtracks to out-gross its accompanying film. Shortly after release, Superfly spent four weeks as at the top of the Billboard Pop charts and yielded a pair of two-million-selling singles, "Freddie's Dead" and the title track, both pregnant with the powerful imagery and tell-it-straight approach that define every moment of the record. Mayfield's direct connection to the material remains evident.

"I could relate with a lot of [the script for Superfly], because I lived enough throughout the city to sense...what a ‘Superfly' was," he once explained to writer Bob Pruter. "[The script] allowed me to get past the glitter of the drug scene and go beyond it." And go beyond he does – in every practical facet – from the entrapment and danger conveyed by "Little Child Runnin' Wild" to the bleak albeit mesmerizing, greasy funk of the blunt "Pusherman" to the escapist sensuality of the smooth "Give Me Your Love (Love Song)." Superfly is an American institution – and a work everyone should experience in full-range sound. Mobile Fidelity's ultra-clean pressing makes it all possible.

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Strictly Limited to 4,000 Numbered Copies
• 180g 2LP Set Features Widescreen Details, Tones, and Grooves
• 45rpm 
• Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Pressed at RTI

Selections:
Side I:
1. Little Child Runnin Wild
2. Pusherman
Side II:
1. Freddie's Dead
2. Junkie Chase
Side III:
1. Give Me Your Love
2. Eddie You Should Know Better
3. No Thing On Me
Side IV:
1. Think 
2. Superfly

SWEET EXORIST - CUSTOM/RHINO RECORDS CBS 8601 - Even a thorough listening of Curtis Mayfield's early 1970s work would have you believe this master's work is all the same, and the argument has plausibility. He is an undisputed master, but not one like The Beatles or Coltrane, who seemed to evolve by the week.

But if Mayfield were alive today and working for Dap-Tone Records, making albums with no modern production--that would sound exactly like he did in 1973-this would still be an essential road to travel. That mix of honey and teeth that made his music so compelling could work forever.

Sweet Exorcist does not burn like CURTIS or SUPERFLY but this funky soul works at a slow cook. This does not make it less compelling--the slower pace and trimming of fireworks does require settled and repeated listening. But like the work of any genius, the excellence does slowly come. The music grows under the skin.

It may not be Curtis Mayfield's best, but it is the best, and that best's name is Curtis Mayfield.

 Track Listings

1. Ain't Got Time 2. Sweet Exorcist 3. To Be Invisible 4. Power To The People 5. Kung Fu 6. Suffer 7. Make Me Believe In You

  ROOTS - CUSTOM/RHINO RECORDS CBS - 8009 - Exact reproduction GATEFOLD reissue manufactured by Rhino. Originally released in 1971

"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')." —

Side 1 Get Down Keep on Keeping On Underground We Got To Have Peace
Side 2 Beautiful Brother of Mine Now You're Gone Love to Kee You in My Mind

CURTIS - CUSTOM/RHINO RECORDS CBS - 8005 FOR YOUR TURNTABLE -  ON THIS TITLE THE SEAL WAS WORN SO WE REPLACED IT IN A RESAELABLE PLASTIC WRAP -  gatefold exact reproduction reissue, manufactured by Rhino; originally released in 1970. "The first solo album by the former leader of the Impressions, Curtis represented a musical apotheosis for Curtis Mayfield — indeed, it was practically the Sgt. Pepper's album of '70s soul, helping with its content and its success to open the whole genre to much bigger, richer musical canvases than artists had previously worked with. All of Mayfield's years of experience of life, music, and people were pulled together into a rich, powerful, topical musical statement that reflected not only the most up-to-date soul sounds of its period, finely produced by Mayfield himself, and the immediacy of the times and their political and social concerns, but also embraced the most elegant R&B sounds out of the past."

1.   (Don't Worry) If There Is A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go 2.   The Other Side Of Town 3.   Wild And Free 4.   The Makings Of You 5.   Miss Black America 6.   Move On Up 7.   We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue 8.   Give It Up

Plus this collectors bonus FOR YOUR HOME & CAR STEREO THE AUDIOPHILE Curtis Mayfield Curtis Numbered Limited Edition Gold CD

Out of Print! Limited Supplies! 

Numbered, Limited-Edition 24K Gold CD Features Mini-LP Style Packaging.
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes.

Mayfield's stunning 1970 solo debut set benchmarks in music, songwriting, and production fields. At last, sonics that reveal the record's soulfulness. 

Curtis Mayfield might best be remembered for producing the Super Fly soundtrack but the incomparable soul singer/multi-instrumentalist/composer never eclipsed the musical and songwriting genius of 1970’s groundbreaking Curtis. Released shortly after he departed the Impressions, a vocal group that he’d already taken in socially conscious directions, Mayfield’s self-titled solo debut set new standards in areas of production, songwriting, and musical fusion. A gripping statement that fearlessly confronted the controversial issues consuming America and urban life, it served as an influential precursor to Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On and remains an inextricable part of the R&B landscape. Seldom has an album registered with so many audiences and groups.

While drawing upon the doo-wop and gospel characteristics made famous by the Impressions, Mayfield stood out as a solo pioneer by mixing in decidedly funky rhythms, swirling string accompaniments, extended and wide-open grooves. His exclusively falsetto singing heightened the drama. Almost unconsciously, Curtis created the blueprint for the future of psychedelic funk, birth of blaxploitation music, and advancement of elegant soul that placed black music on the same platform as the era’s most celebrated pop and rock recordings. On top of it all, the Chicago native delivered message-driven lyrics that challenged the social, economic, and political concerns that had become inherent to the African-American experience. Far from being preachy, Mayfield’s tightly focused lyrics embrace a courageous freedom and sense of humanity, echoing like conversations overheard on the street.

Rarely has any album more saliently addressed prejudice, disparity, and injustice in such an intelligent and biting manner. The record’s crossover appeal and catchy melodies spread Mayfield’s sentiments to the mainstream, which embraced powerful emotional fare such as “(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go,” an attention-getting single that reached number three on the Billboard charts. Simultaneously menacing and empowering, lush and gritty, intense and laidback, orchestral and lean, rousing and soothing, Curtis’ revolutionary legacy is further underscored by the presence of the uplifting anthem “Move On Up,” an inspiring and unifying classic on par with Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” It’s no wonder that artists as disparate as the Afghan Whigs, Bruce Springsteen, and My Morning Jacket have all covered material from the album.

Mastered from the original master tapes, and available on numbered limited-edition 24K Gold CD from Mobile Fidelity, the eminently soulful Curtis now invigorates the senses and triggers reactions like never before. Mayfield’s smooth singing and brilliant production devices--the harps and strings on “Wild and Free,” progressive grooves of the wake-up call “The Other Side of Town,” the lengthy R&B sway of “We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue,” the punctual horns and shaking congas that spice nearly every track--resonate with incredible immediacy and breathtaking clarity, all the while retaining the raw spirit and ambitious sophistication Mayfield intended. Whether this 1970 classic is a longtime favorite or you’ve never heard it, this is the only version to own.

Do not miss this musical masterpiece from Mobile Fidelity.

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• 24 Karat Gold - Ultradisc II
• Mini-LP Style Packaging

Musicians:
Leonard Druss
John Howell
Harold Lepp
Loren Binford
Clifford Davis
Patrick Ferreri
Richard Single
Rudolph Stauber
Donald Simmons
Robert Lewis
Harold Dessent
Ronald Kolber
Harold Klatz
John Ross
Sol Bobrob
Sam Heiman
Elliot Golub
Henry Gibson
Robert Sims
Gary Stabo
Philip Upchurch

Selections:
1. (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Gonna Go
2. The Other Side of Town
3. The Makings of You
4. We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue
5. Move On Up
6. Miss Black America
7. Wild and Free
8. Give It Up

CURTIS MAYFIELD LOVE SONGS VOLUME 2 LONG OUT OF PRINT GET BACK RECORDS 180 GRAM LIMITED EDITION -  ."Curtis Mayfield was perhaps better known for his hard-hitting funk & protest tracks than for his love songs, but these 'proto slow jams' from 1983 prove that the man knew all about getting funky between the sheets too, and with a voice like that who could resist him? This is the second volume after the success of part 1. 180 gram vinyl. 

TRACKS ARE - SHE DON'T LET NOBODY BUT ME - TOOT AN TOOT AN TOOT - BABYDOLL - LOVE IS THE PLACE - JUST EASE MY MIND - YOU MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME - YOU GET ALL MY LOVE - COME FREE YOURSELF 

CURTIS/LIVE DOUBLE 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE IMPORT SET WITH TWO BONUS TRACKS

DOUBLE 180-gram gatefold AUDIOPHILE LP SET

Expanded edition contains two bonus tracks!

Curtis/Live! is Curtis Mayfield's first live album, after leaving The Impressions. Originally released in 1971 as a double LP on Mayfield's Curtom label, the album's 16 tracks — along with Mayfield's interstitial raps on the politics of the day — were recorded at Paul Colby's 230 seater Bitter End nightclub in New York City.

Mayfield and his band's first set at a Bitter End date in January 1971 comprised the bulk of the music presented here. Mixed primarily with Eddie Kramer at Electric Lady Studios, the album features Henry Gibson playing percussion, Craig McMullen on rhythm guitar, Joseph "Lucky" Scott on bass, and Tyrone McCullen on drums.

Many critics feel Live! is a powerful demonstration of Mayfield's pre-Superfly accomplishment, and some even said it's one of the greatest concert albums ever cut on a soul artist, and one of the legendary live albums of all time.

Side 1

                1. Mighty Mighty (Spade And Whitey)

                2. I Plan To Stay A Believer

                3. We’re A Winner

               

Side 2

                4. We’ve Only Just Begun

                5. People Get Ready

                6. Stare And Stare

               

Side 3

                7. Check Out Your Mind

                8. Gypsy Woman

                9. The Makings Of You

                10. We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue

               

Side 4

                11. (Don’t Worry) If There’s A Hell Below

                12. We’re All Going To Go

                13. Stone Junkie

               

Bonus Tracks

                14. Superfly (1973)

                15. Mighty Mighty (Spade And Whitey) (Single Version)

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