Curtis Mayfield
American singer-songwriter and guitaristWikipedia
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Oct 27, 2026
Jason ThorntonHOST
Enjoy.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
coming I started I started playing piano when I was three so you know and I grew up playing in the church and I grew up in Virginia listening to a lot of great artists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Warner and Marvin Gaye and things like that and like that's the thing that drives me is is that original love that I had from the beginning you know the love of the music you know once it's funny because once you get to the music business there's so many other And, you know, there are a lot of people that put things together just to make those millions and things and getting about the art.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So my whole motivation is just thinking about the art first, you know what I'm saying? I mean, that's where all the, I believe that's where all the fruit's gonna come from, you know? Concentrate on that, you know?
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Fill me on the inside and let me be your tour guide Take the hop out of your ride Fill me on the inside and let me be your tour guide Take the hop out of your ride Fill me on the inside Feel me on the inside, let me be your tour guide Take a hop on it for a ride Feel me on the inside, let me be your tour guide Take a hop on it for a ride
Dean DelrayHOST
Josh's falsetto vocal is up there with Mick Jagger's.
Dean DelrayHOST
Mick Jagger's is him, Curtis Mayfield.
Dean DelrayHOST
These guys have some of the greatest vocals falsetto vocals ever prince fucking prince will destroy you with a falsetto vocal but jagger boy when he does it and he does it right it is flawless speaking of top records of the year last week uh there was a thing going down around the social media pick your nine albums pick Absolutely impossible.
Dean DelrayHOST
Pick your nine albums of all time.
Dean DelrayHOST
Yeah.
Dean DelrayHOST
One, one month I'm listening to all Metallica and Slayer.
Dean DelrayHOST
And then another month comes by and I'm, I'm in seventies R and B Curtis Mayfield, you know, the OJs, uh, Commodores, uh, you know, on and on and on earth, wind and fire.
Dean DelrayHOST
It's, it's just, it's, it's where you're at in your mind, uh, Number two, if you want blood, you got it.
Jon StankorbHOST
It almost seems like they're going for the peripheral things that are really exaggerated.
Jon StankorbHOST
But I rarely hear people lean into the castles made of sand, the beautiful chordal thing, the influence of Curtis Mayfield and that kind of stuff.
Jon StankorbHOST
It just seems like it's more common to lean into the band of gypsy stuff or the fire-breathing, guitar-playing, the wah-wah pedal stuff.
Jon StankorbHOST
Yeah.
Mikey MajesticHOST
And Dubhead is going to give you... a special show dedicated to the productions of the dearly departed producer, singer, songwriter, and musician Derek Harriot.
Mikey MajesticHOST
So I'm going to leave you with two tunes tonight, and one of those is a reshoot on 333 Records, and it's Devin Russell's version of Move On Up, originally by Curtis Mayfield.
Mikey MajesticHOST
And the last one I'm going to play you is a tune I haven't dug out for a while, but I felt in the current climate that actually it was quite appropriate.
Mikey MajesticHOST
And it is Bob Marley and the Wailers' Stand Up Jam Rock.
Johnny DethHOST
But black culture, man, black culture was hooking.
Johnny DethHOST
On the radio, you had Al Green singing Let's Stay Together, Bill Withers giving us Lean on Me, The OJs bringing Backstabbers and Curtis Mayfield laying down that un-fucking-forgettable Superfly soundtrack.
Johnny DethHOST
And at the movies, you had The Godfather, The Poseidon Adventure, Cabaret, and Deliverance.
Johnny DethHOST
And meanwhile, Laxploitation was finding its groove.
Simeon BarclayGUEST
Those left-of-centre quarantines, those strange gulches of abject commerce peculiar to British cities.
Simeon BarclayGUEST
Their close proximity to the thriving retail district, a quirk of modern town planning – The adult store boarded up, the vape hut just getting going, just getting a toehold but already looking to move on up in the parlance of Curtis Mayfield.
Simeon BarclayGUEST
Expect the vape hut to have already moved on up or to be moving on up as we speak.
Simeon BarclayGUEST
already relocated to the thriving retail district, as other outlets, the fancy goods store, the trophy shop, the express picture framing service, languish in the left-of-centre quarantine.
P-DubHOST
We was talking yesterday.
P-DubHOST
And I'm like, we was just in a Curtis Mayfield and an Izzy Brothers.
P-DubHOST
Right? And...
P-DubHOST
When you listen to like just the songs that randomly play on Spotify, ain't nothing, ain't been sampled.
Ari MelberHOST
Explain.
Grandmaster FlashGUEST
There was this one particular artist, Al, that really had me pay a close attention to the drum beat, Curtis Mayfield.
Grandmaster FlashGUEST
Yeah.
Grandmaster FlashGUEST
Move on up.
speaker_1UNKNOWN
That's not on this list either.
Ken KesslerHOST
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions are at number 41 with their version of Amen, which some say isn't really a Christmas song, but the folks at Cleveland.com argue back that it is because it has the lines, see the little baby wrapped in a manger on Christmas morning.
Ken KesslerHOST
By the way, I want to periodically mention that this list that I'm talking about is from the Cleveland.com website, and it was first published in December of 2020.
Ken KesslerHOST
I'm talking about it because there's been a lot of conversation about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recently after their announcement of this year's nominees.
Luca ScottHOST
So we're starting from 10 to 1.
Luca ScottHOST
10, Curtis Mayfield.
Luca ScottHOST
9, Amy Winehouse.
Luca ScottHOST
8, Prince.
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