Today’s Artist
Stevie Wonder 1950 –
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
Stevie Wonder was blind from birth but signed to Motown at 11. He played every instrument on his albums and fought to control his own music, winning that fight when most artists lost it. He has 25 Grammys. He made pop music that felt like prayer, and he saw more than most people with eyes. More →
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Who Did It Better
Little Ghetto Boy
1972 Donny Hathaway
2010 John Legend
Donny Hathaway painted a child seeing things no child should witness alone. John Legend sang the same portrait of deep poverty but added a grown man looking back. The little boy was still specific and real. The memory just had more understanding behind every word.
Today’s Record
Here And Now
One look in your eyes and there I see
Just what you mean to me
Right here. Right now. A promise he intends to keep. Not someday. Not if things work out. Here and now. Faithfully. Those words mean something. Some people need a lifetime to decide. He already knows and will not wait another second.
Today’s Theme
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You’re Kidding, Right
T-Bone Walker was the first cat to plug a guitar into an amplifier and make it sing electric blues. T-Bone Walker invented that wide-legged guitar stance and behind-the-head soloing that B.B. King and everyone else later borrowed. Every guitarist who ever struck a power pose owes that stance to T-Bone.
He didn't just play electric guitar; he invented the vocabulary of electric blues guitar.
Soul in the Movies
Love Jones 1997
Love Jones is the Black romantic drama that understood the assignment. Larenz Tate and Nia Long, Chicago in the nineties, and a soundtrack built on neo-soul and spoken word. The film is about artists, about the spaces between words, about what happens when two people too smart for their own good fall for each other. Maxwell's 'Sumthin' Sumthin'' plays during the conversation that changes everything.
Love Jones. The music is the third lead. 