Stevie Wonder - Innervisions, Mint Mowtown, White Lable test pressing STMA 8011

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Stevie Wonder - Innervisions, Mint Mowtown, White Lable test pressing STMA 8011 with Press Insert. this is the EMI UK original release test pressing

Mint Mowtown Classic White lable test pressing due for release 17/8/1973.

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Innervisions is the 16th studio album by American musician Stevie Wonder, released August 3, 1973 on Motown Records; a landmark recording of his "classic period".[1] The nine tracks of Innervisions encompass a wide range of themes and issues: from drug abuse in "Too High", through social anger in "Living for the City", to love in the ballads "All in Love is Fair" and "Golden Lady". The album's closer, "He's Misstra Know It All," is a scathing attack on then-US President Richard Nixon, similar to his song "You Haven't Done Nothin'".[2]

As with many of Stevie Wonder's albums, the lyrics, composition and production are almost entirely his own work, with the ARP synthesizer used prominently throughout the album. The instrument was a common motif among musicians of the time because of its ability to construct a complete sound environment. Wonder was the first black artist to experiment with this technology on a mass scale, and Innervisions was hugely influential on the subsequent future of commercial black music. He also played all or virtually all instruments on six of the album's nine tracks, making most of Innervisions a representative one-man band.

Innervisions won Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording in 1974, while "Living for the City" won the Grammy for Best R&B Song.

Innervisions has been considered by many fans, critics, and colleagues to be among Stevie Wonder's finest work and one of the great albums in popular music history.[16] The album was revisited countless times in different lists of the greatest albums of all time. In his Rock & Roll Review: A Guide to Good Rock (1991), Bill Shapiro wrote "This recording represents the pinnacle of a very important artist's career, and of his physically blind, but nonetheless extraordinary humane vision. For all intents and purposes, and for all of its richness and variety of texture, it is essentially all Stevie Wonder. He personally created and arranged every sound heard. His canvas stretches from the tough realities of ghetto streets to the transcendent joy of spiritual acceptance, each rendered with an original, unique musical palette. The feel is a little more jazz than funk, the result is simply glorious pop music – uplifting sound and message."

In 2001, VH1 named it the 31st greatest album of all time with the following statement: "The whole message of this album seems to be caution – Wonder seems to be warning the black community to be aware of their own plight, strive for improvement, and take matters into their own hands. But this is all against the backdrop of the harsh social realities of America circa 1973, and nowhere does this conflict hit home more than in Wonder's magnum opus, "Living for the City", a raw piece of modern blues on which Wonder played every instrument. The message of urban struggle resonates even more strongly now than it did thirty years ago, proving that the "inner-visions" of this LP were visionary as well."

In 2003, the album was ranked number 23 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[17] The magazine wrote in that occasion:

    ... Stevie Wonder may be blind, but he reads the national landscape, particularly regarding black America, with penetrating insight on Innervisions, the peak of his 1972-73 run of albums–including Music of My Mind and Talking Book. Fusing social realism with spiritual idealism, Wonder brings expressive color and irresistible funk to his synth-based keyboards on "Too High" (a cautionary anti-drug song) and "Higher Ground" (which echoes Martin Luther King Jr.'s message of transcendence). The album's centerpiece is "Living for the City", a cinematic depiction of exploitation and injustice. Just three days after Innervisions was released, Wonder suffered serious head injuries and lay in a four-day coma when the car he was traveling in collided with a logging truck.
    —Rolling Stone

As further evidence of the album's timeless classic status, Innervisions was re-released in the UK on September 15, 2008 to coincide with Wonder's critically acclaimed autumn 2008 European tour.

All songs written, produced, and arranged by Stevie Wonder.

Side one

    "Too High" – 4:36
        Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, Fender Rhodes, harmonica, drums, Moog bass
        Lani Groves – background vocal
        Tasha Thomas – background vocal
        Jim Gilstrap – background vocal
    "Visions" – 5:23
        Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, Fender Rhodes
        Malcolm Cecil – upright bass
        Dean Parks – acoustic guitar
        David T. Walker – electric guitar
    "Living for the City" – 7:22
        Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocals, Fender Rhodes, drums, Moog bass, T.O.N.T.O. synthesizer, handclaps
    "Golden Lady" – 4:58
        Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, piano, drums, Moog bass, T.O.N.T.O. synthesizer
        Clarence Bell – Hammond organ
        Ralph Hammer – acoustic guitar
        Larry "Nastyee" Latimer – congas

Side two

    "Higher Ground" – 3:42
        Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, Hohner clavinet, drums, Moog bass
    "Jesus Children of America" – 4:10
        Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, Fender rhodes, Hohner clavinet, handclaps, drums, Moog bass
    "All in Love Is Fair" – 3:41
        Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, piano, Fender Rhodes, drums
        Scott Edwards – electric bass
    "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" – 4:44
        Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, piano, drums, Moog bass
        Yusuf Roahman – shaker
        Sheila Wilkerson – bongos, Latin gourd
    "He's Misstra Know-It-All" – 5:35
        Stevie Wonder – lead vocal, background vocal, piano, drums, handclaps, T.O.N.T.O. synthesizer, congas
        Willie Weeks – electric bass

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