{"id":593,"date":"2007-05-28T22:47:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T02:47:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-05-28T22:49:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T22:49:14","slug":"wondering-about-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wondering-about-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Wondering About Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wDZFf0pm0SE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI\u2019m embarrassed to admit that I don\u2019t really know <strong>Stevie Wonder<\/strong>\u2019s music at all, except for the &#8217;60s hits and some exposure to his &#8217;70s heyday.  A recent feature in <strong>Mojo<\/strong> has reminded me that I should fill in this blind spot.<\/p>\n<p>What would you experts advise?  Go straight to <em>Innervisions<\/em> and wander around back and forth from there? Start with <em>Signed Sealed Delivered<\/em> and work my way through chronologically till he runs out of steam, or I do? Is there a relatively comprehensive compilation that might suit (and satisfy?) a novice better? (I recently wisely decided to get <em>The Essential Sly &amp; the Family Stone<\/em> instead of the newly released box set, and that turned out to be exactly what was called for.) Should I get <strong>all four of the &#8217;72-&#8217;74 acknowledged masterpieces<\/strong> all at once and immerse myself? Any \u2018musts to avoid\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a little apprehensive, because Wonder\u2019s voice is a little problematical for me. His <strong>over-melismatized<\/strong> vocal style has been such a bad influence on subsequent artists, I\u2019m concerned about coming to it after the fact and finding it hard to get past. But everyone seems to agree that his early &#8217;70s work is above reproach. Even my man <strong>Randy Newman<\/strong> always speaks of that stuff with reverence.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway I\u2019m open to suggestions on what to do about this gaping hole in my musical knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m embarrassed to admit that I don\u2019t really know Stevie Wonder\u2019s music at all, except for the &#8217;60s hits and some exposure to his &#8217;70s heyday. A recent feature in Mojo has reminded me that I should fill in this blind spot. What would you experts advise? Go straight to Innervisions and wander around back <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wondering-about-wonder\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}