Curtis MayfieldBest Curtis Mayfield Albums Ranked

There's No Place Like America Today

pastemagazine

10

“Every Saturday, Paste will be revisiting albums that came out before the magazine was founded in July 2002 and assessing its current cultural relevance. This week, we’re looking at Curtis Mayfield’s deeply profound and splendidly subdued 1975 masterpiece, a bleak yet comforting dissection of post-Nixon America that dares to expound on what love and survival can exist under the thumb of a system ri”

New World Order

rollingstone

8.0

“In 1990, at an outdoor concert in Brooklyn, N.Y., Curtis Mayfield was hit by a falling lighting rig, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. New World Order is the soul titan’s first new studio effort since then, and it is a triumphant return. Produced with a cast of contemporary R&B players, the album doesn’t […]”

The Anthology: 1961–1977

rollingstone

8.0

“Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions: The Anthology,’ a two-CD, forty-song set, is a remarkable document. Lovingly assembled by Chicago-soul authority Robert Pruter, this collection connects a decade’s worth of gentle Impressions singles with the power and invention of Curtis Mayfield’s solo career. The side-by-side pairing presents a stunning picture and casts Mayfield’s often-undervalued solo work […]”

Mayfield: Remixed - The Curtis Mayfield Collection

rollingstone

6.0

“Viewed through the prism of the past two decades, Curtis Mayfield has been celebrated as a hip-hop prophet, largely because of his Superfly blaxploitation soundtrack of smooth funk grooves and ghetto poetics. But the late Chicago soul pioneer’s relevance extends far beyond hip-hop, as this atypically reverent remix album reminds. Louie Vega bumps up the […]”