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STEVIE WONDER
Innervisions
Released - August 3 , 1973, Tamla Records. Produced by Stevie
Wonder
Stevie Wonder - Lead & Backing Vocals, Electric, Acoustic
& Bass Guitars, Drums & Pecussion, Keyboards & Synthesizers, Harmonica
Stevie plays all the instruments on the album, except on the following songs:
| Visions: | Malcolm Cecil - Bass |
| Dean Parks - Acoustic Guitar | |
| David "T" Walker - Electric Guitar | |
| Golden Lady: | Clarence Bell - Organ |
| Ralph Hammer - Acoustic Guitar | |
| Larry "Nastyee" Latimer - Congas |
All In Love Is Fair: Scott Edwards - Bass
| Don't You Worrry 'Bout A Thing: | Yusuf Roahman - Shaker |
| Sheila Wilkerson - Bongos |
He's Misstra Know-It-All: Willie Weeks
- Bass
Backup Singers For "Too High": Lani Groves,
Tasha Thomas, Jim Gilstrap
All songs written by Stevie Wonder.
| SONG | RATING |
| Too High | 7.5 |
| Visions | 7.0 |
| Living For The City | 10.0 |
| Golden Lady | 7.3 |
| Higher Ground | 8.2 |
| Jesus Childern Of Americia | 6.3 |
| All In Love Is Fair | 6.1 |
| Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing | 9.2 |
| He's Misstra Know-It-All | 6.8 |
| Ave. | 7.6 |
REVIEW
An album from Stevie Wonder with lots of political messages including anti drug and anti poverty. "Living For The City" has to go down as one of the best songs ever about life in the ghetto and how hard it can be to climb out of. Stevie plays all the instruments on this powerful song. His haunting synthesizer throughout the song sets the pace nicely. Another song where the use of his synthesizer is also tops is on "Higher Ground", which gives it a great funky feel.
The two most positive thinking songs on this album are "Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing" and "Higher Ground". Both offer hope of better things to come. In the case of "Higher Ground", Stevie sings about being reincarnated and not blowing his second chance: "I'm so glad he let me try it again/Cause my last time on Earth I lived a whole world of sin" Yeah, I'll say that's heavy! The whole album is!
- Keno 2000
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