Year of the Stevie

This series of extensive look at great musicians covers it all. The content is encyclopedic. Wise and well done.

I actually liked the long musical tracks. It reminded me of what Stevie was actually doing at particular periods of his life and it was absolutely the best way of illuminate his development as an artist and visionary.

I was a huge fan of “Year of the Bowie” and “Year of the Joni”, which each had on average a 45 min. of content, most of which provided a great deal of insight into the musician as well as their creative output. However, as a tremendous fan of Stevie Wonder and acknowledging his prodigious musical composition and about his life from a bird’s eye view, I’m finding this season a bit disappointing. First, there is only a half hour in each monthly segment. Secondly, each of these episodes about Wonder has a lot of “filler” by way of long song segments and little insight about the extremely intriguing backstory of his life and song influences. This one leaves me yearning for more depth, especially for an artist of his caliber whose episodes should be worthy of more than 30 minutes of lengthy song clips.