Interesting post.
If anyone’s interested the May, 2021 issue of Mojo has a major story on Marvin Gaye’s What’s Goin’ On. Never liked it myself but can appreciate how others would.
Just the titles of some on the list bring back the moods and feelings of those days. Always true of music. The Back Stabbers, Love Train, Shaft. Corny but evocative of the era.
Curtis Mayfield was so underappreciated by many at first. Notice Keep On Pushin’ (which he wrote for the Impressions and released in 1964) was on the cover of Bringing It All Back Home. Bob Dylan greatly admired him from the start.
And somehow Sly produced classics while out of his mind on drugs. After the label set up studio hours, paid for the sound staff and musicians and all was ready he usually wouldn’t even show up. So the label paid for building a studio at his home so he’d be on time to arrive since he was already there.
Thanks for posting this.
Funny, I was walking around a shopping area last night and “Pusherman” came on over the speakers. Don’t they know it’s got the N-Word in it, LOL!