{"id":5474,"date":"2016-11-18T09:19:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T17:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2016-11-18T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T17:19:30","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-muriel-anderson-plays-stevie-wonders-superstition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-muriel-anderson-plays-stevie-wonders-superstition\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Muriel Anderson Plays Stevie Wonder&#8217;s &#8216;Superstition&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all due respect to classical purists, we&#8217;ve decided to bring the funk this week, with this version of Stevie Wonder&#8217;s immortal Number One smash &#8220;Superstition,&#8221; from his groundbreaking 1972 album,\u00a0<em>Talking Book<\/em>. Though <a href=\"http:\/\/murielanderson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Muriel Anderson<\/a>\u00a0has a very strong background in classical guitar, of course, she is no stranger to exciting arrangements of pop songs, either, and this tune gives her quite a workout! Nor is she is the first guitarist to take on Wonder&#8217;s iconic, keyboard-heavy funk outing\u2014electric guitar slingers such as Jeff Beck and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan tackled it, too, as has acoustic guitar master Adam Rafferty. But it&#8217;s safe to say that what Anderson does with the tune solo on a nylon-string guitar is something unique. Roland Dyens would approve! (She also has an &#8220;easy trio&#8221; sheet music version for sale on <a href=\"http:\/\/murielanderson.com\/product\/sheetmusic\/trios\/superstition-three-parts\/\" target=\"_blank\">her site<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Look for an interview with Anderson\u2014who is also known for playing a 20-string harp guitar\u2014in the Spring 2017 issue of <em>Classical Guitar<\/em>, out in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all due respect to classical purists, we&#8217;ve decided to bring the funk this week, with this version of Stevie Wonder&#8217;s immortal Number One smash &#8220;Superstition,&#8221; from his groundbreaking 1972 album,\u00a0Talking Book. Though Muriel Anderson\u00a0has a very strong background in classical guitar, of course, she is no stranger to exciting arrangements of pop songs, either, and this tune gives her quite a workout! Nor is she is the first guitarist to take on Wonder&#8217;s iconic, keyboard-heavy funk outing\u2014electric guitar slingers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/muriel-anderson.jpg?fit=630%2C388&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}