Recorded live at the Record Plant in Sausalito, Curtis/Live! captures Mayfield and his band firing on all cylinders, reinterpreting early solo material with a ferocity and extended improvisational zeal absent from the studio versions.
- The album reached number 30 on the Billboard Soul Albums chart.
- The setlist draws heavily from Mayfield’s 1970 debut, 'Curtis,' along with two tracks from his pre-fame work with The Impressions.
- In 1971, Mayfield was a newly independent artist, having recently left the Impressions and their Vee-Jay Records contract.
Curtis Mayfield was a supremely gifted singer, guitarist, and songwriter, a soul pioneer whose career began in the 1950s with the Impressions before launching a solo career in the 1970s. Curtis/Live! was released in 1971, a year after his debut solo album 'Curtis' and a year before the soundtrack to the film 'Super Fly'.
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