Video: Stevie Wonder on The Talk Box

Thanks to our friend Ed Watts for contributing this week's B List. In 1976 Peter Frampton made the " talk box " guitar effect famous with Frampton Comes Alive! , an album which featured the device on the songs Do You Feel Like We Do? and Baby, I Love Your Way. With a sound as thick as the lava in a lava lamp, the talk box would propel Frampton Comes Alive! to become the best-selling record of 1976, win the Album of the Year prize in the 1976 Rolling [...]

The austere curatorial bent has run its course, in the least for now. I cover lots of ground and my eyes catch things, but it's easy to be a lazy filter, a narcissistic butterfly net ("Did you see what I saw?"). Let's look at at what I looked and at what I liked looking. That's Elspeth Beard. She rode that motor-cycle around the world, London to London. I read about Thor Heyerdahl when was 10, and knew that this gene that pulls people full-force [...]

"Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing (Live on Musikladen)" "You & I (Live on PBS)" "Close You You/Talk Box" "Heaven Help Us [...]