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A Lasting Impression: The Rolling Stone Interview with Curtis Mayfield

Alan Light, Rolling Stone, 28 October 1993

MORE THAN Marvin Gaye, more than Stevie Wonder, maybe even more than James Brown, Curtis Mayfield captured the total black experience in America during the '60s. As a writer, singer, producer, guitarist and arranger, he was the architect of a soul movement that came to be called the Chicago Sound.

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