...I've always felt that Stevie Wonder's "Hotter Than July LP'":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++139462&a_id=R++++22218&PersonID=P%20%20%20139462&prodid=MOT157357.2&si=rhino is one of his best albums that a lot of people have never heard of...while it doesn't hold a plethora of deep cuts like, say, "Talking Book":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++139462&a_id=R++++22214&PersonID=P%20%20%20139462&prodid=MOT157354.2&si=rhino (You and I, Superstition) or "Innervisions":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++139462&a_id=R++++22215&PersonID=P%20%20%20139462&prodid=MOT157355.2&si=rhino (Living for the City, Higher Ground, Jesus Children of America) or "Songs in the Key of Life":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++139462&a_id=R++++22218&PersonID=P%20%20%20139462&prodid=MOT157357.2&si=rhino (Village Ghetto Land, Sir Duke,Black Man, As) the LP, released in 1980 as a follow up to Songs in the Key of Life, holds two of Steveland's phattest tracks in my book: "Happy Birthday" (a tribute to Martin Luther King written back before it was made an official holiday) and "Master Blaster" a Hammond B3-drenched reggae joint dedicated to his homebiscuit, Bob Marley back when Wonder began to step away from the Moog-y funk and started making inroads on the oScilations of what's now his become his de rigeur synthesizer sound...if you've never heard HTJ in full, check the links and give it a whirl...
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