Never Say You Can't Survive


Never Say You Can't Survive is an album by the American musician Curtis Mayfield, released in 1977. It peaked at No. 173 on the Billboard 200. "Show Me Love" was released as a single.

Critical reception

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."

Track listing

  • Note that track 8, "Sparkle", is also on the Mayfield-written-and-produced soundtrack to the 1976 film Sparkle.

Personnel