Instrumental Interlude: Curtis Mayfield - Freddie's Dead

From the classic Curtis Mayfield album Superfly comes this instrumental version of Freddie's Dead available on the deluxe 25th anniversary edition from Rhino Records. The second disc contains some demos, alternate mixes and quite a few instrumental versions of songs from the original record.

Blacksploitation films were very big at this time after the huge success of Shaft and the soundtrack by Isaac Hayes. A deluge of films followed with the accompanying records but none were better than this one by Curtis.

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