CLASSIC! That's all I can honestly say about this cut. That sax just moves me all of the time!
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It strikes me odd how Stevie used sax less and less throughout the latter 40 years of his career (well there wasn't many horns before then either lol). It's rare to hear a Stevie Wonder hit with a sax ("All I Do" withstanding).
Here's one of my favorite recent Stevie cuts which uses sax:
It's so unfair how this entire album (A Time 2 Love) gets overlooked...
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^ You know what's sad though? Wonderlove was good enough to release its OWN material but Stevie never went THAT far. I was always bothered by that for some odd reason.
^ You know what's sad though? Wonderlove was good enough to release its OWN material but Stevie never went THAT far. I was always bothered by that for some odd reason.
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Yeah...years ago, I thought that they were going to put out their own album, but I don't know where I got that idea,
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" I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout
^ You know what's sad though? Wonderlove was good enough to release its OWN material but Stevie never went THAT far. I was always bothered by that for some odd reason.
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Yeah...years ago, I thought that they were going to put out their own album, but I don't know where I got that idea,
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lol It kinda sucks they didn't. Stevie could've built an empire but I guess other matters got in the way plus that accident kinda changed his MO about everything...
Yeah...years ago, I thought that they were going to put out their own album, but I don't know where I got that idea,
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lol It kinda sucks they didn't. Stevie could've built an empire but I guess other matters got in the way plus that accident kinda changed his MO about everything...
Yeah that '73 car accident turned him from a late-night rock star to a man fascinated with Africa, wearing his hair in African braids, and wearing those African robes. The tone of his music also shifted by '74 too.
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lol It kinda sucks they didn't. Stevie could've built an empire but I guess other matters got in the way plus that accident kinda changed his MO about everything...
Yeah that '73 car accident turned him from a late-night rock star to a man fascinated with Africa, wearing his hair in African braids, and wearing those African robes. The tone of his music also shifted by '74 too.
Right. I often wondered sometimes what would've happened had Stevie NOT had that accident.
lol It kinda sucks they didn't. Stevie could've built an empire but I guess other matters got in the way plus that accident kinda changed his MO about everything...
Yeah that '73 car accident turned him from a late-night rock star to a man fascinated with Africa, wearing his hair in African braids, and wearing those African robes. The tone of his music also shifted by '74 too.
he was wearing braids and robes by 1971/1972, before the accident. and i see nothing wrong with his connection to the motherland. if he continued to go the previous route, perhaps his work would have been less spiritual, who knows. it may have been the same, but there are visions which may not have occured had that accident happened. would we have ever gotten 'contusion'? hee hee...
Yeah that '73 car accident turned him from a late-night rock star to a man fascinated with Africa, wearing his hair in African braids, and wearing those African robes. The tone of his music also shifted by '74 too.
he was wearing braids and robes by 1971/1972, before the accident. and i see nothing wrong with his connection to the motherland. if he continued to go the previous route, perhaps his work would have been less spiritual, who knows. it may have been the same, but there are visions which may not have occured had that accident happened. would we have ever gotten 'contusion'? hee hee...
Oh I didn't say there was anything wrong with him connecting to the motherland. Actually, that's why I love Stevie as an artist, prophet, and most of all, man. There's history behind him, Africa and the totality of Black music. And the "braids and robes" comment was just a joke! Even though he was wearing braids and robes way before '74 onwards, he was wearing it heavily after the car accident. Many of his collagues and peers couldn't understand why, but he seemed to be more wiser and mindful about his way of life after that tragedy. That's one of the reasons why his legendary '72-'74 collaborators Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil walked away from him for nearly two decades. He became more afrocentric and understood what it meant to be a God-fearing man.
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he was wearing braids and robes by 1971/1972, before the accident. and i see nothing wrong with his connection to the motherland. if he continued to go the previous route, perhaps his work would have been less spiritual, who knows. it may have been the same, but there are visions which may not have occured had that accident happened. would we have ever gotten 'contusion'? hee hee...
Oh I didn't say there was anything wrong with him connecting to the motherland. Actually, that's why I love Stevie as an artist, prophet, and most of all, man. There's history behind him, Africa and the totality of Black music. And the "braids and robes" comment was just a joke! Even though he was wearing braids and robes way before '74 onwards, he was wearing it heavily after the car accident. Many of his collagues and peers couldn't understand why, but he seemed to be more wiser and mindful about his way of life after that tragedy. That's one of the reasons why his legendary '72-'74 collaborators Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil walked away from him for nearly two decades. He became more afrocentric and understood what it meant to be a God-fearing man.
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therein lies the problem with not catching nuance on the internets... HA! i'm really bad at capturing nuance in these forums and social networking sites.
he was wearing braids and robes by 1971/1972, before the accident. and i see nothing wrong with his connection to the motherland. if he continued to go the previous route, perhaps his work would have been less spiritual, who knows. it may have been the same, but there are visions which may not have occured had that accident happened. would we have ever gotten 'contusion'? hee hee...
Oh I didn't say there was anything wrong with him connecting to the motherland. Actually, that's why I love Stevie as an artist, prophet, and most of all, man. There's history behind him, Africa and the totality of Black music. And the "braids and robes" comment was just a joke! Even though he was wearing braids and robes way before '74 onwards, he was wearing it heavily after the car accident. Many of his collagues and peers couldn't understand why, but he seemed to be more wiser and mindful about his way of life after that tragedy. That's one of the reasons why his legendary '72-'74 collaborators Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil walked away from him for nearly two decades. He became more afrocentric and understood what it meant to be a God-fearing man.
[Edited 4/19/11 23:52pm]
Yeah, it seemed Stevie got wiser after that accident. Who knows? Maybe he was a bit obnoxious before that...
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CLASSIC! That's all I can honestly say about this cut. That sax just moves me all of the time!
And I agree. AT2L is a good album.
That was a young, then-unknown David Sanborn honkin' away!
I was always bothered by that for some odd reason.
