Curtis Mayfield – (There's No Place Like) America Today (VG+/E) – LP, US 2009

(There's No Place Like) America Today is an LP by Curtis Mayfield from 2009 released on the Curtom label.

About this album

There's No Place Like America Today is one of Curtis Mayfield’s most searching and politically charged albums. Released in 1975, it pairs his supple falsetto and unhurried groove sense with lyrics shaped by urban hardship, economic pressure and disillusionment in post–civil rights America. The title track and songs such as Billy Jack and Hard Times show Mayfield turning social critique into subtle, melodic soul-funk rather than blunt protest. Produced by Mayfield himself, the album is widely regarded as a late-period highlight that deepened his reputation as a writer capable of making protest music intimate, humane and musically refined.

Genre: Soul & Funk

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