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Saturday, 04 November 2006
(Curtom records CRS 8009/Buddah records 2318 045) 1971

Produced by Curtis Mayfield

Side One: Get Down (Mayfield) Curtom Publishing
Keep On Keeping On (Mayfield) Camad Music
Underground (Mayfield) Curtom Publishing
We Got To Have Peace(Mayfield) Curtom Publishing

Side Two: Beautiful Brother Of Mine (Mayfield) Camad Music
Now You're Gone (Mayfield/Scott) Camad Music
Love To Keep You In My Mind (Mayfield) Curtom Publishing

Musicians: ???

Ratings: TI **** JI ?????

TI: A great album that opens very strongly with the funky “Get Down“ which is followed by the beautifull “Keep On Keeping On“, a classic Curtis song about believing in yourself, never giving up and raising from lying. Curtis have always known how to give people hope. When I started to listen to the man it was the music that first caught me but now I must say his lyrics is as inspiring for me “Underground“ is more funk in a style similar to Funcadelic�s first album. “We Got To Have Peace“ ends side one and is a god popsong.
Side two opens with one of my favorites, “Beautiful Brother Of Mine“ whitch starts with harps and strings before the distorted bass takes over, real great! “Now You�re Gone“ is blues and the title tells it all. “Love To Keep You In My Mind“ is my other favorite and it�s a great love tune. I hate to give an album like this less than top rating but still it�s just a little bit weaker than his best work. But offcourse it�s a good bought so get down to the record store now... Re-released by Charly Records on CD.

 
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