There's No Place Like America Today

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". The original photograph was published in the February 15, 1937 edition of Life magazine.

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

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