A Motown alum, hipster rockers and a member of Led Zeppelin are among the headliners for the 2008 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival. Stevie Wonder, the Raconteurs and Robert Plant with Alison Krauss, as well as pianoman Billy Joel, the margarita loving Jimmy Buffett and jammers Widespread Panic will all headline the festival, scheduled for two weekends, April 25th-27th, May 1st-4th.The lis...
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Today, Republicans are making weak attempts to give Barack Obama a run for his money following the Illinois Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate's 45- minute acceptance speech that closed out the Democratic National Convention last night. It is already being called one of the greatest speeches ever made. ("In 10 years we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East...I'l...
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Additional performers will join Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Forest Whitaker, Aretha Franklin, Wyclef Jean, Queen Latifah, Dave Stewart, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Josh Groban, Angelique Kidjo, Baaba Maal, Jesse McCartney, Zucchero, the Soweto Gospel Choir and a host of African artists to help kick-off the first Mandela Day Celebration Tickets On Sale...
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...it's Memorial Day weekend here in the States and although the current state of affairs on the world stage don't look too promising, I'll try to keep my faith in mankind alive with a little hope...vetoes and political bickering aside, I'll forego the rhetoric and cut to the chase with one of Stevie Wonder's funky joints from the Songs in the Key of Life double-album which contains a grip of S...
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How important is a campaign song? Well, one should choose accurately. After Illinois Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama lost unexpectedly to fellow candidate and New York Senator Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary, Obama's camp was ridiculed for playing Stevie Wonder's 'Signed Sealed Delivered, I'm Yours" after the defeat. The classic tune is know for the lyric...
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In a recent interview conducted for the AP with legendary singer songwriter Stevie Wonder, we get an insight into the a man who has been a cornerstone of the music industry for almost 50 years. Speaking about Obama, Wonder explains his support of the presidential hopeful isn't purely an issue of color; "My focus is not just because he is an African-American ... but his spirit is one of being ki...
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So Friday is here, and I will be headed to Wisconsin this weekend to see my little brother graduate from college. Should be a good time, I am not sure I ever expected to see him reach this point in his life, sometimes the kid just seems to fly by the seat of his pants and not apply himself when needed. Thats coming from me of course, big brother who is harder on him that I probably should be. M...
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Stevie Wonder had words of praise for Barack Obama and Amy Winehouse. Dubbing Obama "a combination of MLK and JFK" at a press conference he organized which detailed his upcoming European tour, the first in more than 10 years.Steive held the event at the Hard Rock Café in central London's Piccadilly, after a brief Q & A session with the press he preformed 8 songs including his hits 'Superstition..
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Don't say I never did anything for you Anna.
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...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_i...
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here, from an old Motown Christmas LP, with a tune to make the party-goers get up and dance
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stevie wonder doing i wish and sir duke. need i say more? do you even need to watch the awesome video????
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...hey MOG, what's crack-a-latin up in this piece? Me, I'm chillaxin', reading you and lookin' around...some interesting things going on 'round here and all's I'll say can be summed up in a quote that I'll crib from the character Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) when he wrote that letter to his homeboy Red (Morgan Freeman) who's getting out of the "Greybar Hotel" at the end of the film The Shawshan...
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Stevie Wonder05/23/09 - Rabat, Morocco - OLM Souissi06/24/09 - Alpharetta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amph. At Encore Park06/26/09 - Kansas City, MO - Starlight Theatre06/28/09 - Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Amphitheater06/30/09 - Montreal, QC - Scene General MotorsSchedules for Journey, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and John Waite after the cut. Journey05/23/09 - West Sacramento, CA - Raley Field06/06/09 -...
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