There's No Place Like America Today Explained

There's No Place Like America Today
Type:	studio
Artist:	Curtis Mayfield
Cover:	There's No Place Like America Today cover.jpg
Studio:	Curtom Studios, Chicago, Illinois
Genre:	Soul funk
Label:	Curtom
Producer:	Curtis Mayfield
Prev Title:	Got to Find a Way
Prev Year:	1974
Next Title:	Let's Do It Again (with The Staple Singers)
Next Year:	1975

There's No Place Like America Today is the seventh studio album by Curtis Mayfield, released in 1975 on Curtom Records. It peaked at number 120 on the Billboard 200 chart, as well as number 13 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

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.^[2]

Critical reception

The album was featured in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.^[3] In 2013, NME placed it at number 373 on the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.^[4]

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

• Curtis Mayfield – vocals, guitar, keyboards, production
• Rich Tufo – keyboards, arrangement
• Gary Thompson – guitar
• Phil Upchurch – guitar
• Joseph "Lucky" Scott – bass guitar
• Quinton Joseph – drums
• Henry Gibson – percussion
• Harold Dessent - woodwinds
• Roger Anfinsen – engineering
• Ed Thrasher – art direction
• Peter Palombi – illustration
• Lockart – design
• Marv Stuart – management

Charts

Chart	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[5]	120
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)^[6]	13

External links

• • There's No Place Like America Today (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net (streamed copy where licensed)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Revisiting Curtis Mayfield's There's No Place Like America Today. The Quietus. David. Bennun. April 16, 2015. January 13, 2018.
2. Behind the Picture: 'The American Way' and the Flood of '37. https://web.archive.org/web/20150601021204/http://time.com/3879426/the-american-way-photos-from-the-great-ohio-river-flood-of-1937/. dead. June 1, 2015. Time. Ben. Cosgrove. March 24, 2014. January 13, 2018.
3. Book: Robert. Dimery. 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Universe Publishing. 2005.
4. Web site: The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time: 400-301. NME. October 23, 2013. January 13, 2018.
5. Curtis Mayfield - Billboard 200. Billboard. January 13, 2018.
6. Curtis Mayfield - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Billboard. January 13, 2018.