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Roots by: Curtis Mayfield List Price: $9.98 CD-Charts Price: $8.99 You Save: $0.99 (10%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0081227556921 Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered Label: Rhino / Wea Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Rhino / Wea Release Date: January 19, 1999 Studio: Rhino / Wea Sales Rank: 42070 MPN: 75569 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - Buy this Album today!Hard to imagine a better music value than this album, especially today at .99 cents. Excellent musicianship, especially the percussion, base, and guitar. Custis Mayfield's excellent voice and lyrics complete a great, great clasic album. 'Roots' would be a great addition to the music collection of anyone that appreciates good music.Superfly Rating: - grand soul music from the early 70's This remastered classic sounds great. It's got a nice percussive groove on a few tracks. Great musianship that supports the social message that's delivered by Curtis' unique voice. Rating: - (4.5 stars) Another fantastic example of Curtis at his prime.Far more varied than Curtis: there's a great funk song, "Get Down", and he does another one of those mid-song paradigm shifts on "Keep On Keepin' On" (from a string-laced ballad to a funk song), and there's also a jazzy poetry recitation on "Underground" that falls flat: after that ends, it thankfully sinks into a Santana-esque polyrhythmic groove; "Now You've Gone" is an orchestrated blues that does slightly overstay its welcome. Some of it recalls the debut, but in a good way: "Beautiful Brother of Mine", the album's huge Isaac Hayes like-epic, has a memorable rapid-fire string introduction. Musically, it's not too different from "Hell Below", but its arrangement is captivating, the rhythms are powerful, and the distorted, watery guitar solo ... Read More: Rating: - His Best Solo Album?I'm not sure which of Curtis' first two albums was his best but they were both incredible. 1971's ROOTS picks up right where CURTIS left off the year before. I dare say that only the Rolling Stones made music anywhere near as good as Curtis during this late sixties early seventies period. Don't believe me? Name four better consecutive albums than CURTIS, ROOTS, CURTIS/LIVE, and SUPERFLY which were all released between 70' and 73'. We are talking about MAYBE two or three average songs among all these albums combined, with the rest being absolutely top notch if not downright historic. Every song seems to bring a different emotion, and though there are only 8 they are all extremely potent. It is almost impossible to fast forward a track on ... Read More: Rating: - Oh yes, this is goodI love the way these classic albums are coming out remastered with deeper clarity now. I just got this and I'm not going to talk much about what a sweet, fantastic, funky, awesome, inspiring album this is from a rare genius in the prime of his career. I just wanted to say that this remaster brings the energy up even more, the high hats and snare has a beautiful crispness that was just not there at all in the previous muddy cd issue of this album. I am really happy with this reissue and recommend buying it even if you have the previous older version without the few extra tracks on the end. Curtis Mayfield was a one of a kind and this reissue gives even more arguement that this is perhaps his greatest album. |
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