{"id":7401,"date":"2018-04-22T10:42:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2018-04-22T10:42:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:42:59","slug":"curtis-mayfield-kung-fu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=7401","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Mayfield – Kung Fu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Curtis Mayfield – Kung Fu MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What Better way to east into the week than with some mellow, timely Curtis?<\/p>\n

You all know that Curtis Mayfield<\/strong> was\/is where it\u2019s at, as composer, Impression, singer, guitarist and spirit of all things soulful.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s selection, \u2018Kung Fu\u2019 (and you know there\u2019s some 44 year old out there carrying the name with him) hails from the 1974 LP \u2018Sweet Exorcist\u2019, which seems to have been pieced together with some older\/existing tracks and some then-current material.<\/p>\n

No matter how or why this album was assembled, the bottom line is that it is prime, mid-70s Curtis (\u2018Kung Fu\u2019 was an R&B Top 5 hit, making it into the Pop Top 40) and it has both a tasty groove, as well as a story to tell.<\/p>\n

I have no doubt that Curtis had the strong, stoic wanderer Caine<\/strong> on his mind when he composed the tale of persistence in the ghetto, with a tip of the hat to the Temps<\/strong> \u2018Papa Was a Rolling Stone\u2019.<\/p>\n

The groove is subdued but strong, with the bass and a stabbing organ setting the tone, with some barely perceptible strings wavering underneath.<\/p>\n

This is the sound of the city circa 1974, with Curtis walking a razor between defiance and despair.<\/p>\n

It is both a head-nodder and a head-shaker, and if you\u2019re not old enough to remember the early 70s, there\u2019s enough going wrong in the world now for you to identify with the vibe of the song.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, and I\u2019ll see you all next week.<\/p>\n

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Sensei Curtis Listen\/Download – Curtis Mayfield – Kung Fu MP3 Greetings all. What Better way to east into the week than with some mellow, timely Curtis? You all know that Curtis Mayfield was\/is where it\u2019s at, as composer, Impression, singer, guitarist and spirit of all things soulful. Today\u2019s selection, \u2018Kung Fu\u2019 (and you know there\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,14,30,12],"tags":[171,163,166,164],"class_list":["post-7401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funk","category-funky16corners","category-lp-tracks","category-soul","tag-chicago-soul","tag-funk","tag-funky16corners","tag-soul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMKgo-1Vn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7402,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}