Hello everyone Kirk here with another special bonus for you all last week I ran an

episode of The Wonder of Stevie a new Stevie Wonder podcast from Pineapple Street

Studios hosted by Wesley Morris. I hope that got some of you to go check out the show since

like I said last week it's really good. and as I also mentioned last week I ran that

episode as part of a promo swap with the folks who made that show so if you do

listen to it you might hear a new trailer that I just made for Strong songs

running during their ad breaks.

But because I'm such a huge fan of Wesley Morris of his writing, his podcasting, I asked

if he'd be down to come on Strong Songs to talk with me about Stevie Wonder in the process of making the show.

He did me one better.

He got one of the show's producers, Josh Gwyn, to also come with, and all three of us had the

conversation that you're about to listen to.

A bit more about who each of those guys are, just in case you aren't a nerd like me who already knows

lots of podcasters and writers, Josh Gwynne is both a podcast producer and a podcast

podcast host. He works on a bunch of different projects

for Pineapple Street Studios.

He hosts the terrific pop culture show Back Issue,

among a lot of other things that he is involved with. And Wesley Morris

is Critic at Large at the New York Times, a co-host of the still processing

podcast and winner of not one but two Pulitzer Prizes for criticism. He is the author as some of my

favorite pieces of music writing ever. I've linked to some of them down in the show notes and I hope

you'll check them out because his writing is indispensable.

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