{"id":733,"date":"2014-02-14T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2014-02-12T16:26:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:26:49","slug":"song-of-the-week-super-fly-by-curtis-mayfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: “Super Fly” by Curtis Mayfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n

This is “Super Fly” by Curtis Mayfield:<\/p>\n

Curtis Mayfield — “Super Fly”<\/a><\/p>\n

Curtis Mayfield’s soundtrack to the 1972 film Super Fly\u00a0<\/em>serves as a kind of counterpoint to what Mayfield perceived as the film’s potential celebration of the drug dealer lifestyle. Soul music offers a whole slew of artists whose intelligent and complex music is matched by thoughtful and socially-engaged lyrics, but at least in my mind, Curtis Mayfield’s oeuvre stands out for its consistency, not just of quality, but of vision: from Curtis,<\/em> his first solo album, to Super Fly,<\/em> to\u00a0Back to the World<\/em> and beyond, his music engages and continuously repays that engagement. There’s no trick to what Curtis Mayfield does; his music results from the application of his enormous talent, or rather talents: he was a musician, composer and lyricist of the highest ability, and that’s before I call attention–as if I need to–to his voice.<\/p>\n

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