Who is the one for you?

Curtis. No slight on Stevie.

Wonder has some incredible stuff but also some very corny material. Mayfield always sounds great and is effortlessly cool so I'm going with him.

Curtis May was badass.

Superfly

Superstition played live on Sesame Street in 1973:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWP33i98dOQ

Even if you prefer Curtis Mayfield, this is worth your while.

A few years ago 'd have definitely said Stevie. Talking book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key...are absolutely stellar records. I've seen that Sesame Street clip a million times, for some reason a friend had a VHS copy of that performance that I dubbed and kept around in the 90's.

I didn't seriously listen as much to Curtis Mayfield for whatever reason until the last few years, but man, I feel like his brilliance is sometimes overlooked even with the respect he gets. Someone upthread said effortless, and that's a good description. His music just seemed to appear fully realized from the moment it came out of him. I've come to really, really love him lately.

If you haven't seen Curtis on OGWT, well, remedy that now.

I can't vote.

I feel like the right answer might be Stevie but Curtis always meant more to me.

Curtis Mayfield all day, every day. It's not even close.

penningtron wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:56 pm Wonder has some incredible stuff but also some very corny material. Mayfield always sounds great and is effortlessly cool so I'm going with him.

Yeah, and there's no "Contusion" fusion horseshit on the classic Curtis records. There are some serious highs spread throughout that huge Stevie period, but Curtis and Roots are pretty much flawless.