Never Say You Can't Survive
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Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox". Never Say You Can't Survive is an album by the American musician Curtis Mayfield, released in 1977.[1][2] It peaked at No. 173 on the Billboard 200.[3] "Show Me Love" was released as a single.[4]
Critical reception
Template:Music ratings Rolling Stone noted that Mayfield's "voice, which grows thinner and more strained with each album, fails to command the focus of the big, multisectioned arrangements."[5]
Track listing
- Note that track 8, "Sparkle", is also on the Mayfield-written and produced soundtrack to the 1976 film Sparkle.
Personnel
- Curtis Mayfield - vocals, lead guitar
- Gary Thompson - rhythm guitar
- Joseph Scott - bass
- Floyd Morris, Rich Tufo - keyboards
- Donnell Hagan - drums
- Henry Gibson - bongos, congas
- Cliff Davis, Sonny Seals - tenor saxophone
- Kitty and the Haywoods - backing vocals
- James Mack, Rich Tufo - arrangements