William Parker: I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield
Mar 29th, 2011 by gcunniff
Check Our Catalog“There’s a sense that, by joining the dots between different forms of African-American music, Parker is using Mayfield’s compositions to preach a timeless sermon of Afro-centric consciousness. That’s heightened by the addition of the uplifting raised voices of the New Life Tabernacle Generation of Praise Gospel Choir, and by the hellfire-hipster declamations of poet Amiri Baraka reading his own works, and providing another link back to the radicalisms of the 60s avant-garde.” –BBC Music