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Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973) [2000, Remastered Reissue]

Posted By: BlondStyle

Date: 25 Dec 2018 21:48:00

"Innervisions" is the 16th studio album by American musician Stevie Wonder, released August 3, 1973, on the Tamla label for Motown Records, a landmark recording of his "classic period". The nine tracks of Innervisions encompass a wide range of themes and issues: from drug abuse in "Too High", through inequality and systemic racism in "Living for the City", to love in the ballads "All in Love Is Fair" and "Golden Lady". The album's closer, "He's Misstra Know-It-All", is a scathing attack on then-US President Richard Nixon, similar to Wonder's song a year later, "You Haven't Done Nothin'".

~Wikipedia

When Stevie Wonder applied his tremendous songwriting talents to the unsettled social morass that was the early '70s, he produced one of his greatest, most important works, a rich panoply of songs addressing drugs, spirituality, political ethics, the unnecessary perils of urban life, and what looked to be the failure of the '60s dream all set within a collection of charts as funky and catchy as any he'd written before. Two of the highlights, "Living for the City" and "Too High," make an especially deep impression thanks to Stevie's narrative talents; on the first, an eight-minute mini-epic, he brings a hard-scrabble Mississippi black youth to the city and illustrates, via a brilliant dramatic interlude, what lies in wait for innocents. (He also uses his variety of voice impersonations to stunning effect.) "Too High" is just as stunning, a cautionary tale about drugs driven by a dizzying chorus of scat vocals and a springing bassline. "Higher Ground," a funky follow-up to the previous album's big hit ("Superstition"), and "Jesus Children of America" both introduced Wonder's interest in Eastern religion. It's a tribute to his genius that he could broach topics like reincarnation and transcendental meditation in a pop context with minimal interference to the rest of the album. Wonder also made no secret of the fact that "He's Misstra Know-It-All" was directed at Tricky Dick, aka Richard Milhouse Nixon, then making headlines (and destroying America's faith in the highest office) with the biggest political scandal of the century. Putting all these differing themes and topics into perspective was the front cover, a striking piece by Efram Wolff portraying Stevie Wonder as the blind visionary, an artist seeing far better than those around him what was going on in the early '70s, and using his astonishing musical gifts to make this commentary one of the most effective and entertaining ever heard.

~Review by John Bush

Release of this album: 1973, August, 3 [LP Tamla, Cat.# T 326L, USA]
Release of this CD: 2000, March, 21 [CD The Universal/Motown Records Group (USA), Cat.# 012 157 355-2 / UPC: 601215735529]
℗ 1973, © 2000 The Universal/Motown Records Group, a Division of UMG Recordings Inc.
Printed in U.S.A.

Credits:

Art Direction [Reissue] – Vartan
Coordinator [Production Coordinator] – Margaret Goldfarb
Coordinator [Recording] – Ira Tucker, Jr., John Harris
Design [Reissue Package Design] – Mathieu Bitton
Illustration – Efram Wolff
Instruments [All Instruments Played By] – Stevie (tracks: 3, 5, 6)
Instruments [All Other Instruments Played By] – Stevie (tracks: 1, 2, 8, 9)
Programmed By, Engineer [Engineering Of Electronic Music] – Malcolm Cecil, Robert Margouleff
Recorded By [Recordist] – Austin Godsey, Dan Barbiero
Remastered By – Kevin Reeves
Research, Supervised By [Reissue] – Harry Weinger
Synthesizer [Arp & Moog] – Stevie Wonder
Tape Op – Gary Olazabal
Written-By, Producer, Arranged By – Stevie Wonder

Tracklist:

01. Too High (04:36)
02. Visions (05:23)
03. Living for the City (07:22)
04. Golden Lady (05:00)
05. Higher Ground (03:42)
06. Jesus Children of America (04:10)
07. All in Love Is Fair (03:42)
08. Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing (04:45)
09. He's Misstra Know-It-All (05:35)

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See also:

You might also be interested in the following albums by Stevie Wonder:

Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness...1986, Reissue] {Japan for USA}
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness...74) [2000, Remastered Reissue]
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July (1980) [1987, Reissue]
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July (1980) [1993, Reissue]

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