"I want you all to Twitter this," said Stevie Wonder, midway through Thursday night's show at Madison Square Garden. "I'm not having triplets, it's just one baby!"
The 64-year-old has recently made news because he is due to be a daddy again but in the next few weeks, he'll be making musical headlines as his latest tour marches across the country. 38 years on from its release, Wonder is finally revisiting the epic "Songs In The Key Of Life" double album and the first show beautifully recaptured the heart and soul of almost every note.
Backed with a small army of string and horn players, six backing vocalists (including India Arie), and a water-tight band, Wonder didn't just recreate his distant past, he made it sound vivid and rich.
The brilliance of "Songs In The Key Of Life" lies in its musical ambition and almost four decades later, Wonder can still meet those intense demands. Whether it was the thick funk of "Black Man," the big-hearted soul of "As" or the joyous R&B of "I Wish," he manged the stylistic turns and shifts with almost every bit of the skill he had in 1976. Vocally, he barely sounded like he had aged a day, handling even the highest notes on the album with relative ease. It was less of a throwback to Wonder at his peak than it was simply a continuation of it.
To that end, Wonder made sure to point out the social relevance of "Songs In The Key Of Life" in modern life. During a sobering "Village Ghetto Land," he broke away to remind the packed crowd that the horrors of "families buying dog food" he documented on the original song still remain in 2014. Wonder also spelled out his desire for America to be completely accessible to those with disabilities and at one juncture, stopped the show to pay tribute to attending families of the Sandy Hook victims before taking aim at gun control, gravely stating "the only things that gun do is make the manufacturers and mortuaries rich."
Aside from a 20 minute intermission, Wonder spent almost three hours on stage channeling "Songs In The Key Of Life" back into the ether, but there was still enough wind left in him to run through the untouchable groove that is "Superstition." One of the best albums of all time topped with one of the best singles of all time; it's just a shame that every Thursday night isn't filled with such Wonder.
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