That audience was dead as hell! I love this song, my uncles use to play this when i was a little girl and I play this song in my car loud as hell right now, Curtis Mayfield sung some deep moving songs, he had a message in all of them, Go head Impressions!
I remember being a little girl when this came out and black folks were so scared to move fearing that white supremacist would destroy anything they tried to build. Some even believed Curtis Mayfield would somehow be assassinated because if this song.. The government even tried to get CM to change some of the lyrics.Racial division and tension was at an utmost high.. then....Look at the faces of the people in the video...
This is one of his early masterpieces.. just a beautifully written soul classic. His famous rhythm guitar style is one point... probably the best examples of it. Remember we don’t get Jimi as we know him without Curtis.
Curtis was a Master story teller, and when his journey moved him on from his group . He left a price of his self behind, and they were bad ( Moven On Up)