LP #36 Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (1973)

Wonderfully consistent, with a canny mix of love ballads and social commentary.

 

From Rolling Stone:

 

Stevie Wonder's high-flying musical experimentation and penetrating lyrical insight made Innervisions a textured, but never self-indulgent, work of soulful self-discovery. Fusing social realism with spiritual idealism, he brings expressive color and irresistible funk to his keyboards on "Too High" (a cautionary anti-drug song) and "Higher Ground" (which echoes Martin Luther King Jr.'s message of transcendence). The album's centerpiece is "Living for the City," a cinematic depiction of exploitation and injustice.

 

(Random thought: about seven years later, Wonder released an album titled Hotter Than July. I don’t even want to go there.)

 

Favorite tracks:

 

All In Love Is Fair

Living For The City

Golden Lady

Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing

Higher Ground