Monday's Dusty Grooves | Curtis Mayfield's Back to the World Coming hot on the heels of Curtis Mayfield’s powerhouse “Superfly” album was his 1973 release of the wonderful Back To The World album. Mayfield's music always had a socially-conscious and political bent to it, but the tracks on Back To The World cranked this conceit up to an even higher degree, largely inspired the increasingly industrial world around him, and the social and environmental concerns that followed it. Since it’s Memorial Day, it would only be right to start my morning ride in my ‘64 Dodge with the titled track “Back to the World”. “Back to the World” has powerful and timely lyrical content mainly dealing with life in the U.S. after the vietnam war which had just ended as the last troops were finally on their way back home. The title track and 1st song on the album is told from the viewpoint of a soldier whose made it back home only to be told that A) The war had not been won and B) Nothing really had changed for the better since he’d left and in many ways was now worse. It’s a very descriptive and chilling realization that now the soldier was in the midst of a another war for freedom of thought and expression “Back In The World”. Salute through the words and sounds of Curtis Mayfield…….. @curtislmayfield #memorialday #vietnamwar #1973 #backtotheworld #curtismayfield #curtomrecords #classiccars #1964dodge #soliders #vietnamsoldier https://www.instagram.com/p/CeNCj-Ltbp1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
