Curtis Mayfield

Back to Living Again – Curtis Mayfield – This is it folks, the single greatest secular hymn ever, even if with Curtis, Go is always in the details. His last greatest moments off his last great album, which Eric Clapton, taking the award for best album, said “This belongs to Curtis”.

It sure does sound like Mayfield, who sang in from a wheelchair paralyzed from the neck down, was saying goodbye, just reminding us if he could come back from the devastating accident that nearly, and eventually would, kill him so could we: the trick to life is living it. Not only is it a glorious melody it is also a glorious sentiment and a benediction.