Music of My Mind, from The Wonder of Stevie

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Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden

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4.8 • 6.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sharing a preview of a podcast called The Wonder of Stevie. You might think you know Stevie Wonder. You might think you know his music. But you’ve never heard it like this.

Host Wesley Morris is taking you on a deep-dive through Stevie's Classic Period: five legendary albums back-to-back in just four years. Hear about the record deal that started it all, the technology Stevie adopted to create never-before-heard sounds, and his influence on our culture. There will be appearances from legends like Barack and Michelle Obama, Questlove, Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick, Babyface, Janelle Monae and more.

In this episode, Wesley details how, years after signing his first recording deal with Motown Records, Stevie decides to renegotiate his contract. One of the things on the table? Complete creative freedom. What follows is the beginning of one of the greatest streak of albums in American popular music: Music of My Mind.

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0:00.0	Hey, y'all. What's up? Jamie and I are so excited to share a new podcast with you hosted by the
0:04.4	culture critic Wesley Morris. She and I have both been huge fans of Wesley and his work over the
0:10.0	years when it comes to movie reviews and just cultural criticism at large. So we're so excited to see
0:14.9	what he's going to do with this podcast. It's called The Wonder of Stevie. You might think you know
0:19.8	Stevie Wonder. You might think you know his music, but you've never heard it like this.
0:23.8	Wesley is taking us on a deep dive through Stevie's classic period, five legendary albums back to back in just four years.
0:30.7	Hear about the record deal that started at all.
0:32.8	The technology Stevie adopted to create never before heard sounds and also hear about his influence on our culture.
0:38.9	There will be appearances from legends like Barack and Michelle Obama, Questlove, Smokey Robinson,
0:44.2	Dionne Warwick, Babyface, Janelle, Monet, and more. This upcoming episode is actually a really,
0:49.5	really good one. Wesley details how Stevie is able to renegotiate his Motown Records contract for complete creative freedom.
0:56.9	And what follows is the beginning of the greatest streak of albums in American popular music, music of my mind.
1:03.3	Okay, here comes a sneak preview.
1:04.7	You can binge the entire season of The Wonder of Stevie right now, including a bonus episode with Stevie Wonder himself talking to
1:11.5	President Barack Obama. Listen to The Wonder of Stevie wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:17.1	Audible Originals, Higher Ground Audio and Pineapple Street Studios present The Wonder of Stevie,
1:24.3	hosted by Wesley Morris.
1:29.8	Please!
1:34.3	Listen at that baseline.
1:39.4	That's an engine pumping.
1:41.3	We're about to drive somewhere.
1:43.6	No, no, no, no, no, we're about to fly.
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