Curtis Mayfield - Soul Music flac album

Curtis is the debut album by American soul musician Curtis Mayfield, released in September 1970. Produced by Mayfield, it was released on his own label Curtom Records. The musical styles of Curtis moved further away from the pop-soul sounds of Mayfield's previous group The Impressions and featured more of a funk and ed sound. The album's subject matter incorporates political and social concerns of the time.

This music was complex but empathic, and on his sublime 1973 album Back to the World, Mayfield planted himself in the boots of soldiers returning from Vietnam and struggling to adjust to life at home. In the opening title track, a soldier’s return is greeted by his mother’s cry of the war was never won, the discovery that his woman has long been gone (this doggone war lasted too damn long), and the knowledge that soldier boy ain’t got no job, the refrain of people don’t give a damn balmed by the sweetness of.