A Time for Love

A Time for Love October 12, 2005

“We need to have more respect for each other,” Wonder says, leaning forward for emphasis. “Things have just gone really crazy, out of control. … We’re on a very weird kind of cycle.”

It was here that he put together the tracks featuring a wide array of musicians, including Prince, Paul McCartney, India.Arie and Bonnie Raitt, as well as two duets with his daughter Aisha Morris, one of his seven children.

Story.

I saw Stevie Wonder in concert back in 1980. Phenominal. Two and a half hours of nothing but number one songs. “Songs in the Key of Life” is one of my favorite albums; “As” and “Love in Need of Love Today” are guaranteed remedies for any mental funk. Stevie is one of the artists featured in Dad’s Musicology class. (Which means my children have to suffer mini-lectures when Stevie’s tunes are played.) Pull out the “Talking Book ” LP, put on “You and I” … and fall in love with somebody. Even love itself.

But Stevie quit making real music the day he just called to say he loved me. Would that his return ushered in “A Time for Love.” Lord knows we all need it.

H/T Drudge


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