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| 1. "(Don't Worry) If There Is A Hell Below, We're All Going To 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 |
| 9. Power To The People |
| 10. Underground |
| 11. Ghetto Child |
| 12. Readings In Astrology |
| 13. Suffer |
| 14. Miss Black America |
| 15. The Makings Of You |
| 16. "(Don't Worry) If There Is A Hell Below, We're All Going To Go" |
| 17. "[Don't Worry] If There Is A Hell Below, We're All Going To Go [Single Version]" |
Review While he was still ostensibly with the Impressions when he recorded Curtis, the music he laid down was a different beast entirely. Rather than the smooth pop of his former band, he chose a grittier funk nand psychedelic edge with which to deliver this missive of consciousness-raising. Recorded at a time when, as Curtis himself said: ''...people stopped wearing tuxedos...people were getting down a little more'', the album, encouraged by his manager, allowed Mayfield to spread his wings and experiment a little more.
While the juxtaposition of strings, harps and throbbing backbeats may well have sprung more from his lack of musical education, the results were startling. Mixing contemporary issues about racial pride and civic responsibility (Miss Black America, Move On Up) the albium was a heady brew of realism and danceable grooves. Only boasting one hit ((Don't Worry) If There's Hell Below We're All Going To Go), Curtis still sold well and opened up Mayfield's career to the extent that he shook off the chains of commercialism once and for all (he left the Impressions for good the following year), becoming a spokesman of his generation. --Chris Jones
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