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Title: Please don't automatically thumbs-down my four-star review
Review: Curtis/Live! has been called "one of the greatest concert albums ever cut" by a soul artist. It's very good, but not quite that good. The band sounds wonderful, and there are enough great songs to have made a single-LP that would have been a "greatest album ever." But the full double album contains some songs that, though they have a great groove, are lyrically or melodically weak, e.g., "Stare And Stare."The song "People Get Ready," which is strong lyrically and melodically, is a good example of the kind of magic Mayfield and his stripped-down band worked in concert. Unfortunately, not all the material on this album is as strong.
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