Maybe
this is what it really means to be a singer-songwriter. Long after
a car crash wrecked his face and his career as an R&B star,
Percy Mayfield wrote. Listen, if only just to the names of the
songs: “Memory Pain”; “Nightless Lover”;
“Please Send Me Someone To Love”; “Hopeless”;
“Lost Mind”; “The River’s Invitation”;
“Louisiana”; “The Big Question”; “I
Dare You”: “You Don’t Exist No More;”
“Wasted Dream;” “Nightmare;” “The
Voice Within;” “Life Is Suicide.”