Stevie Wonder

Features

Part One: The Icons

By PopMatters Staff

With DETOURS, the PopMatters staff is celebrating the strange, bizarre, lovely, and funny albums that have emerged from an artist’s desire to try something different. Some of these detours have lead to modern-day classics. Some have lead to laugh-inducing commercial disasters. And others... others are just plain weird. [28 July 2008]

Reviews

Stevie Wonder: A Time to Love

By Justin Cober-Lake

If you care about being cool, walk away now. We won't miss you. [28 October 2005]

Stevie Wonder: Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection

By Andy Hermann

It’s a long-overdue retrospective of one of the most influential artists in pop music history.

[20 January 2003]

Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life

By John Kreicbergs

Songs in the Key of Life is the sprawling vision of a man whose sight has been rendered infinite by the power of love and faith.

[16 December 2002]

Stevie Wonder: Where I’m Coming From

By Kandia Crazy Horse

Personal, ambitious, sprawling, underrated: Where I’m Coming From still has its pleasures.

[3 October 2002]

Blogs

Sound Affects: “Zoom, I wish the world were truly happy”: Barack and the blues

In Grant park on the night of America’s victory in November 2008, Barack opened with: "It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment, change has come to America." It is my sincere hope that readers don’t miss that. Barack has a deep and personal understanding of this unique and complex American history. A cool, smooth, blues man has come to lead the nation. [24 February 2009]