[Harp-L] re: Stevie Wonder overrated



Motown musicians valued substance over flash. They were more concern with the groove and the melody than soloing. Stevie's harp playing was exactly what the song needed and nothing else. When you think of his accomplishments (he invented the funk clavinet sound) the songs he wrote, the instruments he could play, the power of his voice, it's hard to see any validity in complaints that he wasn't as good a harp player as Sonny Boy.

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