Sunday, May 8th
another take
Stevie Wonder, “I Won’t Complain,” live (Luther Vandross’s funeral), New York (The Riverside Church), 2005
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2021
Sunday, February 21st
testify!
Stevie Wonder, “I Won’t Complain” (P. Jones), live, Memphis, 1998
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2017
Friday, May 5th
Still hard to believe he’s gone.
Prince with Stevie Wonder, live, Los Angeles, 2011
2016
Friday, April 22nd
passings
Prince, singer, songwriter, master of all (musical) trades, June 7, 1958-April 21, 2016
Today, remembering him, we revisit a post from last year.
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With all he does, this can get lost: on guitar, he’s a killer.
Cee Lo Green, “Crazy,” live (with Prince, guitar), New York, 2011
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Stevie Wonder, “Superstition,” live (with Prince, guitar), Paris, 2010
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I am alive—I guess—
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #605 (Franklin), first line
2015
Friday, April 17th
With all he does, this can get lost: on guitar, he’s a killer.
Cee Lo Green, “Crazy,” live (with Prince, guitar), New York, 2011
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Stevie Wonder, “Superstition,” live (with Prince, guitar), Paris, 2010
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I am alive—I guess—
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #605 (Franklin), first line
2014
Tuesday, January 28th
This just in from my son Luke (now twenty-two, living in Kansas City):
Did you see Stevie Wonder last night with Daft Punk?
Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams, Daft Punk, “Get Lucky,” live (Grammy Awards), 1/26/14
2013
Friday, August 23rd
Stevie Wonder with Prince, “Superstition” (S. Wonder), live, Paris, 2010
Not many stars would handle this the way Prince does. Actually, what’s most impressive is what he doesn’t do. Given a guitar solo, he doesn’t try to steal the show—or even draw attention. Instead, he feeds the groove.
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Sophistication is upscale conformity.
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What is more yours than what always holds you back?
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The heart is a small, cracked cup, easy to fill, impossible to keep full.
—James Richardson, “Even More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays from Vectors 3.0” (excerpts)
2013
Monday, August 5th
old school
Stevie Wonder, live (TV show), Germany, 1974
It doesn’t take long, sometimes, to realize how strong something is. With this, for instance, I could listen all day, happily, to a loop of the first ninety seconds.
2013
Sunday, June 23rd
Stevie testifies.
Stevie Wonder, “I Won’t Complain,” Luther Vandross’s funeral, New York (The Riverside Church), 2005
(Originally posted 10/11/09.)
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I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours of war, plagues, fires, inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, meteors, comets, spectrums, prodigies, apparitions, of towns taken, cities besieged in France, Germany, Turkey, Persia, Poland, &c., daily musters and preparations, and such like, which these tempestuous times afford, battles fought, so many men slain, monomachies, shipwrecks, piracies and sea-fights; peace, leagues, stratagems, and fresh alarms. A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances are daily brought to our ears.
—Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
2012
Sunday, 9/2/12
Stevie testifies.
Stevie Wonder, “Falling in Love with Jesus,” live
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