There's No Place Like America Today

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There's No Place Like America Today
There's No Place Like America Today cover.jpg
Studio album by
Curtis Mayfield
ReleasedMay 1975 (1975-05)
StudioCurtom Studios, Chicago, Illinois
Genre
Length35:23
Label Curtom
Producer Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield chronology
Got to Find a Way
(1974)		There's No Place Like America Today
(1975)		 Let's Do It Again
(with The Staple Singers)
(1975)
Singles from There's No Place Like America Today
  1. "So in Love / Hard Times"
    Released: 1975
  2. "Love to the People / Only You Babe"
    Released: 1975

There's No Place Like America Today is the seventh studio album by Curtis Mayfield, released in 1975 on Curtom Records. [1] It peaked at number 120 on the Billboard 200 chart, [2] as well as number 13 on the Soul LPs chart. [3]

Contents

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. [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Christgau's Record Guide D+ [6]
Paste 10/10 [7]

The album was featured in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . [8] In 2013, NME placed it at number 373 on the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. [9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Curtis Mayfield.

No.TitleLength
1."Billy Jack"6:10
2."When Seasons Change"5:28
3."So in Love"5:15
4."Jesus"6:13
5."Blue Monday People"4:50
6."Hard Times"3:45
7."Love to the People"4:07
Total length:35:23
Reissue edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
8."Hard Times" (Long Version)3:57

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Billboard 200 [2] 120
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums ( Billboard ) [3] 13

References

  1. 1 2 Bennun, David (April 16, 2015). "Revisiting Curtis Mayfield's There's No Place Like America Today". The Quietus . Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Curtis Mayfield - Billboard 200". Billboard . Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Curtis Mayfield - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard . Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ Cosgrove, Ben (March 24, 2014). "Behind the Picture: 'The American Way' and the Flood of '37". Time . Archived from the original on June 1, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ Eder, Bruce. "There's No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield". AllMusic . Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: M". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved March 7, 2019– via robertchristgau.com.
  7. ↑ Matt Mitchell (August 24, 2024), "Time Capsule: Curtis Mayfield, There's No Place Like America Today", Paste , retrieved January 14, 2025
  8. ↑ Dimery, Robert, ed. (2005). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . Universe Publishing.
  9. ↑ "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 400-301". NME . October 23, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2018.


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