Curtis Mayfield – We've Only Just Begun

In the great soul man's hands, We've Only Just Begun was tender and excited, not cloying and sentimentalAt the beginning of the 70s Curtis Mayfield left the Impressions and was in the mood for tuneful activism. In the spirit of the times, he had it in mind to make his audience focus on society, its inequalities and the urgency of changing the world. Mayfield sang much too beautifully for this to be a tiresome project.On the double album Live at the Bitter End he tests the tolerance of his audien...

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