Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Getting to know me ...
Perhaps I should give a little background on myself and my love for music. My ID alone says a lot about me and how much I'm into music. I'm a daddy to three great kids, I can sing pretty well, I have a deep bass voice but I can hit some tenor notes with relative ease... and I'm a dude. First, you...
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Monday, January 31, 2005
Stevie Wonder's 'Songs In The Key Of Life'
Songs In The Key Of Life was Stevie Wonder’s magnum opus, a collection of 21 songs that - when they first came out on vinyl - took up two LP records plus a 33 1/3 rpm EP recording about the size of a 45 rpm record. He followed this album up with another two-record set that was widely pooh-poohed (...
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Stevie Wonder's 'Fulfillingness' First Finale'
Stevie Wonder lightened up again on his social commentary for this 1974 release which still garnered plenty of awards and fan favor. However, much like the more issue-oriented pieces from the ‘lighter’ Talking Book, when he made a statement here he didn’t hold much back. Religion again was a...
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Stevie Wonder's 'Innervisions'
While Talking Book briefly touched on social issues (but when it did, it was very strong), it also more often had a light-as-a-feather feel. Innervisions, on the other hand, more often came across with a hammer-to-the-head approach to looking at ourselves as a society. Stevie may be blind, basically...
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Stevie Wonder's 'Talking Book'
Was it Marvin Gaye who got the hard-hitting soulful Motown social commentary burning for the first time with “What’s Going On?” Gaye might have been among the first to light the match, but Stevie Wonder helped turn it into a bonfire with four groundbreaking albums from 1972-76, helped along by...
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