Stevie Wonder
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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B.B. KingStevie WonderThe TemptationsThe SupremesSmokey RobinsonThe Four TopsEtta JamesBig Mama ThorntonRay CharlesSam CookeJackie WilsonAretha FranklinMarvin GayeAl GreenCurtis MayfieldWilson PickettBill WithersIsaac HayesBooker T. & the M.G.'sThe Staple SingersPrinceMichael JacksonWhitney HoustonErykah BaduD'AngeloLauryn HillMary J. BligeJanet JacksonLuther VandrossBeyonceSadeTina TurnerSister Rosetta TharpeSolomon BurkeBen E. KingSam & DaveFats DominoLittle RichardChuck BerryLouis JordanDinah WashingtonPatti LaBelleThe DelfonicsDonny HathawayRoberta FlackLionel RichieDiana RossMartha ReevesThe Jackson 5Alicia KeysUsherAnita BakerMaxwellJill ScottTLCDestiny's ChildGladys KnightMavis StaplesBig Joe TurnerJohnny OtisTeddy PendergrassBobby WomackLou RawlsRick JamesRuth BrownLaVern BakerR. KellyEarth Wind & FireKool & The GangThe Isley BrothersWarRufus & Chaka KhanChaka KhanBarry WhiteThe O'JaysGladys Knight & The PipsQuincy JonesThe MetersOhio PlayersTower of PowerMaurice WhiteThe Neville BrothersCameoThe Gap BandThe CommodoresSlaveLakesideHarold Melvin & The Blue NotesThe StylisticsThe SpinnersThe WhispersThe Chi-LitesThe DramaticsBlue MagicThe ManhattansThe Main IngredientMaze featuring Frankie BeverlyThe DellsDazz BandMidnight StarThe SOS BandBilly PrestonThe Brothers JohnsonCon Funk ShunRose RoycePatrice RushenPleasureHarold MelvinEddie LevertEddie KendricksDavid RuffinDennis EdwardsWilliam HartRussell Thompkins Jr.Candi StatonTyrone DavisClarence CarterBetty WrightMillie JacksonMelba MooreDeniece WilliamsAngela BofillStephanie MillsRandy CrawfordRegina BellePeabo BrysonFreddie JacksonAlexander O'NealCherrelleRufusAngie StoneRaphael SaadiqMint ConditionTony! Toni! Toné!JodeciBoyz II MenNew EditionBell Biv DeVoeEn VogueSWVXscapeSade AduToni BraxtonBabyfaceEugene RecordJohnnie TaylorEdwin StarrTammi TerrellMary WellsJunior WalkerLittle Willie JohnJoe TexArthur ConleyMaxine BrownTommy HuntDobie GrayJohnny MooreLloyd PriceBig MaybelleTeena MarieJackie MooreBrenda HollowayKim WestonBetty EverettTimmy ThomasBilly PaulJean CarnPhyllis HymanEvelyn Champagne KingShalamarMarilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.Ashford & SimpsonNickolas AshfordValerie SimpsonJimmy Jam & Terry LewisGamble & HuffHall & OatesPointer SistersSister SledgeThe EmotionsThe Three DegreesFloetryMusiq SoulchildGinuwineAaliyahBrandyMonicaFaith EvansIndia ArieGoapeleLedisiLalah HathawayDianne ReevesGeorge BensonAl JarreauCannonball AdderleyJohnny "Guitar" WatsonBetty DavisMarvin Gaye & Tammi TerrellLyn CollinsProfessor LonghairThe ContoursThe IntrudersMcFadden & WhiteheadDenise LaSalleLatimoreDyke & the BlazersThe BlackbyrdsMarva WhitneyLoose EndsSoul II SoulMica ParisLisa StansfieldBilalDweleVan HuntThe Sweet InspirationsCissy HoustonDee Dee WarwickBobby CaldwellThe Jones GirlsBobbi HumphreyLabi SiffreArchie Bell & the DrellsMel & TimThe 8th DayJohn LegendAmy WinehouseBeBe Winans
Who Did It Better
Little Ghetto Boy
Donny Hathaway 1972
Donny Hathaway
John Legend 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
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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 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.
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