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Music of My Mind, after more broadly asserting himself on 1971's Where I'm Coming From. The first stirrings of this independent streak, however, trace back several years before to Up-Tight. He'd been in the midst of a dry spell on the charts, after becoming the youngest ever for reach No. 1 with Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius in 1963. By the time this appropriately named LP arrived on May 4, 1966, he was neither 12 nor the same widely acknowledged genius anymore. To a degree, this was a relief. He never liked all of that prodigy-related praise, anyway. "The genius in me is God," Won...

Stevie Wonder released 'Up-Tight,' home to his first-ever original hit single, on May 4, 1966.

Emmy Award-winning production company Tupelo Honey celebrates the 25th anniversary of its founding this month. In March 1996, Cary Glotzer started the bout

A Freedom-Fighter Forever Celebrated 31 years ago today, February 11, the South African icon Nelson Mandela walked through Victor Verster Prison gate to freedom after having been incarcerated for 27 years. A prison sentence that the lawyer and social activist had received — along with several others including Andrew Mlangeni and Govan Mbeki, for leading the movement to end the racist, brutal and segragative apartheid regime in the country. A highly oppressive white-supremacist system that existed in South Africa for some 50 years. The release of ‘Madiba’ - as he is affectionately known ...

Synchronicity. Walter Hyatt and I shared it in buckets during the decade we knew each other, and it still gently turns up a quarter of a century after he “left the building.” After living with this CD for a week, I thought I’d give it another spin as I wrote about it. Just as “Uncle Walt,” Champ Hood and David Ball start grooving away on the opening track, “If I Don’t Stop Crying (I know I’m gonna bring down rain),” it starts coming down like cats and dogs outside, and I smile. ‘Cause here’s the rub—the tune is an upbeat toe-tapper blues about water getting thrown on a...