{"id":1596,"date":"2023-01-26T22:13:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T06:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2023-02-13T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T01:52:08","slug":"music-tuesday-heartbreak-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/music-tuesday-heartbreak-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"music: Tuesday Heartbreak attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the pure joys of <a href=\"\/blog\/2020\/08\/music-wondering-at-stevie-wonder\/\">going through Stevie Wonder&#8217;s incredible 6 album run<\/a> was rediscovering the perfect rainy-day funk of &#8220;Tuesday Breakup.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stevie Wonder - Tuesday Heartbreak\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0PawDt9dZGc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was in a store and heard the song, but wait! it&#8217;s Macy Gray. It turns out she recorded her own version of the entire <em>Talking Book<\/em> album on its 40th anniversary in 2012. While listening to it again, YouTube Music Premium Red Gold Google Play also volunteered Michael McDonald&#8217;s version off his second volume of Motown covers, <em>Motown Two<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tuesday Heartbreak\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-tDwRrRgh9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tuesday Heartbreak\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4UxAH9cllLI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Macy and Michael have stronger bass than Stevie&#8217;s Moog bass on the original; both more present in the mix and doing more inventive things. (I can&#8217;t figure out who&#8217;s the bassist for Macy Gray, sadly there are no details on Wikipedia and Discogs, her web site is taken over, and I can&#8217;t get from any archived version of the front page of her web site on the Wayback Machine to any details of the album; Michael McDonald has a ridiculous set of players on his album <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motown_Two#Personnel\">according to Wikipedia<\/a>, the bassist could be Nathan East or Abraham Laboriel.) But:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stevie Wonder&#8217;s drumming is <em>incredible<\/em>. In the chorus it&#8217;s pre-proto-disco hi-hat, but it&#8217;s an organic whole with his snare. Macy&#8217;s drummer (again, no idea who&#8217;s the drummer) can&#8217;t unlearn disco hi-hat. Michael&#8217;s drummer (could be the great Vinnie Colaiuta, or Abe Laboriel Jr., or Nicky Shaw) is just <em>tight<\/em>; mostly closed hi-hat, tight fills.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stevie Wonder has phenomenally expressive keyboards. Macy doesn&#8217;t even try and pushes her keyboards down in the mix; Michael goes for more keyboard colors (he has all kinds of guest stars on keyboards), but none of them have the intense variations of volume and wah-wah that Stevie has.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stevie Wonder&#8217;s got David Sanborn&#8217;s oddly hollow sax (I think this might be Sanborn&#8217;s first big break) giving a unique feel, from the unexpected tentative bass sax notes in the intro to the muted wailing in chorus after chorus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s really hard to do a better homage than the original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And of course, <em>Talking Book<\/em> has Jeff Beck (24 June 1944 \u2013 10 January 2023)&#8217;s lovely, lovely guitar break on &#8220;Lookin&#8217; for Another Pure Love&#8221; \ud83d\ude2d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pure joys of going through Stevie Wonder&#8217;s incredible 6 album run was rediscovering the perfect rainy-day funk of &#8220;Tuesday Breakup.&#8221; I was in a store and heard the song, but wait! it&#8217;s Macy Gray. It turns out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/music-tuesday-heartbreak-attempts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}