I've felt for some time that the music I post on my personal tumblelog is often lost in the mix.
I like to share.
I spent 10 years in the music industry and I've been an avid consumer and collector of music from almost every genre and decade since I was a wee child.
What I post here may be familiar or foreign, old or new. Good music is just good music to me.
You can also find me here, for a more visual representation of my sensibilities.
Email me: atherdiscretion at gmail dot com
One Woman Show
Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman
Ok, so shoot me. I went with the obvious Curtis track…but isn’t it the best?
Although sometimes what you think may be the obvious, may not be to someone else..
He almost always sang in falsetto…
He was also very active in the late 60’s black civil rights movement, along with James Brown and Sly Stone. Civil rights and blaxpoitation.. hehe. That’s ok, guys…don’t take everything seriously. I like that.
In 1990, a public address rig collapsed on top of him during a concert and it left him permanently paralyzed from the neck down. Ahh!
In 1996 he recorded an album, New World Order, which was released to good reviews, but during the recording he had to lie, suspended in a harness on his front, in order to give his voice some gravitational power…
THEN, in 1998 he had his right leg amputated due to diabetes. He died in 1999, aged 55.
Musically, he was probably past his prime, but 55 is too young to die…
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