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词条 There's No Place Like America Today
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  1. Album cover

  2. Critical reception

  3. Track listing

  4. Personnel

  5. Charts

  6. References

  7. External links

{{Infobox album
| name = There's No Place Like America Today
| type = studio
| artist = Curtis Mayfield
| cover = There's No Place Like America Today cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1975|05}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = Curtom Studios, Chicago, Illinois
| genre = Funk, R&B
| length = {{Duration|m=35|s=23}}
| label = Curtom
| producer = Curtis Mayfield
| prev_title = Got to Find a Way
| prev_year = 1974
| next_title = Let's Do It Again
(with The Staple Singers)

| next_year = 1975
| misc = {{Singles
| name = There's No Place Like America Today
| type = studio
| single1 = So in Love / Hard Times
| single1date = 1975
| single2 = Love to the People / Only You Babe
| single2date = 1975
}}
}}There's No Place Like America Today is a 1975 studio album by Curtis Mayfield.[1] It peaked at number 120 on the Billboard 200 chart,[2] as well as number 13 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.[3]

Album cover

The album cover was based on a 1937 monochrome photograph by Margaret Bourke-White, titled At the Time of the Louisville Flood, on which the advertising slogan was "There's No Way Like the American Way".[1] The original photograph was published in the February 15, 1937 edition of Life magazine.[2]

Critical reception

{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[3]
|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide
|rev2Score = D+[4]
}}

The album was featured in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[5] In 2013, NME placed it at number 373 on the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.[6]

Track listing

{{Track listing
| all_writing = Curtis Mayfield
| total_length = 35:23
| title1 = Billy Jack
| length1 = 6:10
| title2 = When Seasons Change
| length2 = 5:28
| title3 = So in Love
| length3 = 5:15
| title4 = Jesus
| length4 = 6:13
| title5 = Blue Monday People
| length5 = 4:50
| title6 = Hard Times
| length6 = 3:45
| title7 = Love to the People
| length7 = 4:07
}}{{Track listing
| collapsed = yes
| headline = Reissue edition bonus track
| title8 = Hard Times
| note8 = Long Version
| length8 = 3:57
}}

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

  • Curtis Mayfield – vocals, guitar, keyboards, production
  • Rich Tufo – keyboards, arrangement
  • Gary Thompson – guitar
  • Phil Upchurch – guitar
  • Joseph "Lucky" Scott – bass guitar
  • Quinton Joseph – drums
  • Henry Gibson – percussion
  • Roger Anfinsen – engineering
  • Ed Thrasher – art direction
  • Peter Palombi – illustration
  • Lockart – design
  • Marv Stuart – management

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Billboard 200[7] 120
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[8] 13

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/17642-curtis-mayfield-theres-no-place-like-america-today|title=Revisiting Curtis Mayfield's There's No Place Like America Today|work=The Quietus|first=David|last=Bennun|date=April 16, 2015|accessdate=January 13, 2018}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://time.com/3879426/the-american-way-photos-from-the-great-ohio-river-flood-of-1937/|title=Behind the Picture: 'The American Way' and the Flood of '37|work=Time|first=Ben|last=Cosgrove|date=March 24, 2014|accessdate=January 13, 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/theres-no-place-like-america-today-mw0000653638|title=There's No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield|work=AllMusic|first=Bruce|last=Eder|accessdate=January 13, 2018}}
4. ^{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: M|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=M&bk=70|accessdate=March 7, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}
5. ^{{cite book|editor-first=Robert|editor-last=Dimery|title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die|publisher=Universe Publishing|year=2005}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nme.com/photos/the-500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-400-301-1426436|title=The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 400-301|work=NME|date=October 23, 2013|accessdate=January 13, 2018}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/music/curtis-mayfield/chart-history/billboard-200|title=Curtis Mayfield - Billboard 200|work=Billboard|accessdate=January 13, 2018}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/music/curtis-mayfield/chart-history/r-b-hip-hop-albums|title=Curtis Mayfield - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|work=Billboard|accessdate=January 13, 2018}}

External links

  • {{Discogs master|30107|There's No Place Like America Today}}
  • There's No Place Like America Today (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net (streamed copy where licensed)
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