Stevie Wonder - A Time To Love
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Artist: Stevie WonderBrand: *
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-10-18
Music Label: Motown
Product features:
- WONDER STEVIE A TIME 2 LOVE
- If Your Love Cannot Be Moved
- Sweetest Somebody I Know
- Moon Blue
- From the Bottom of My Heart
- Please Don't Hurt My Baby
- How Will I Know
- My Love Is On Fire
- Passionate Raindrops
- Tell Your Heart I Love You
- True Love
- Shelter In the Rain
- So What The Fuss
- Can't Imagine Love Without You
- Positivity
- A Time To Love
Free Music Notes for A Time To Love
Free Music Review: Stevie's Back!
Hit: 5 Stars
It took ten years and a few months in between new releases but finally Stevland Morris, a/k/a Stevie Wonder has come back with a new album and it's stellar. Probably ten miles ahead of his 1995 effort, "Conversation Peace", which was a decent album considering the time it took. While "Peace" took seven years to complete, "A Time 2 Love" took longer and seems very personal for Stevie considering the stuff he had to go through professionally as well as personally.
For starters, the Kirk Franklin and Kim Burrell-assisted "If Your Love Cannot Be Moved" is as moving a spiritual song as it is also a social kind of statement. I love how Stevie & Kim went back and forth all in all hearing rap legend Doug E. Fresh beatboxing added a nice touch to the song. "The Sweetest Somebody I Know" has nice strings and beautiful vocals from the Wonder Man himself and ends beautifully...until Stevie's little son comes and yells "that's ENOUGH!!!" and then it ends hilariously. A beautiful tribute to his new family perhaps. "Moon Blue" contains some of the best vocals of Wonder's career. It's one of the few times he's used his falsetto to hit perfect notes. Not a bad song either with its jazzy interplay. Those who've heard it know how "From the Bottom of My Heart" goes. Almost similar to "I Just Called to Say I Love You" but I prefer this song over that one anyways. "Please Don't Hurt My Baby" brings out some of the funkiest music that Stevie ever recorded since the mid-'70s. A song about infidelity, it has a nice funk-rock-soul touch with female and male background interplays. "How Will I Know", a jazzy duet with his now 30-year-old daughter Aisha is touching and beautiful. Aisha was the same baby who was playing around with her daddy and mommy on the audio dialogue during "Isn't She Lovely?" "My Love Is On Fire" is a funky string and horn-filled jam that you can keep on repeat if you're into funky soul like this. "Passionate Raindrops", like the previous reviewer said, is just like "Rocket Love" was by the way the chorus goes. "Tell Your Heart I Love You" echoes early-'70s Stevie with its funk-meets-electric-blues fusion and includes a nice slide guitar by the legendary Bonnie Raitt. "True Love" is a nice saxophone-filled jazzy ballad. "Shelter in the Rain", Stevie's tribute to victims of Hurricane Katrina is a nice gospel-like song filled with a good message in an era where few good messages are even sent. The song is uplifting for those who feel down. Everybody who listened to it knows "So What's the Fuss" and the star combo included like Prince on guitar and in background vocals, the one and only En Vogue. All I gotta say is good thing Stevie put the lyrics in the booklet to the CD because I almost had no idea what he was saying. Now I know this song is a social statement and it's straightforward. Features a nice funk jam between Stevie & Prince at the end. "Can't Imagine Love Without You" was first played at the BET Walk of Fame honoring Stevie as he introduced it as a new song. The finished project is very nice compared to the one he played live. "Positivity" is the track many would confirm is the best track on the album. With a melody that echoes the Jackson 5 and bringing back the talk box and again featuring daughter Aisha, Stevie sends his message of positivity through. "A Time 2 Love", featuring India.Arie and guitar by Paul McCartney and instrumentation from several musicians from overseas is a worldwide social message of peace and love.
Few artists have been able to make new chapters into storied careers and again, that artist ain't like Stevie Wonder. Five years into his fifth decade as a music legend and pioneer, Stevie convinces us that he can still make captivating music no matter how long it takes to be released.
Cheers, Stevie!
A Time To Love Poster
Japanese pressing of A Time To Love, which is the 28th studio album from the legendary singer/songwriter, includes the single 'So What The Fuss' and features guest appearances from Kim Burrell, Aisha Morris, India Arie, Prince & En Vogue. This pressing includes a Japanese only bonus track which you download from PC sight with password in the package.The bonus track is limited, and you can access it till Apr, 2006. Motown. 2005.Stevie Wonder took more than ten years to give a studio successor to Conversation Peace but A Time to Love feels fresher than we had any right to expect after such a long wait. For starters, the guests are well picked: They include Bonnie Raitt (playing slide guitar on "Tell Your Heart I Love You"), gospel singer Kim Burrell (on "If Your Heart Cannot Be Moved"), India Arie (on the title track), and Wonder's own daughter, Aisha Morris (whom listeners may remember as the source of her dad's delight in Songs in the Key of Life--"Isn't She Lovely"). Last but not least, Prince plays elegant, minimal funky guitar and En Vogue perform swoony backup vocals on first single "So What the Fuss," a classic pared-down dance number graced with Wonder's trademark socially conscious lyrics. It's on tracks like these--sounding as if they could be from anytime between 1975 and now--that Wonder shows he's still got the golden touch. He remains a sterling melodicist ("Moon Blue" is a killer ballad), and the harmonica intro on "From the Bottom of My Heart" is among the loveliest he's created. Of course a Wonder album wouldn't be complete without saccharine ballads, and he delivers there too ("Passionate Raindrops," "Can't Imagine Love Without You"). Still, this is a solid effort from one of America's premier artists. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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