I figured out what took me so long- I\'m calling it Stevie Wonder Syndrome.
As anyone around my age (29) can atest, some of the greatest artists of the 70\'s put out some insufferable crap in the 80\'s. I\'m old enough to remember nonsense like I Just Called To Say I Love You, but Superstition was before my time.
As a result when others would speak of these artists, I\'d think \'like yeah I\'m familiar with that shit\', when I really had nothing but the poorest of subject samples.
I think I can thank Wonderful Tonight for my initial resistance to Clapton.
Bruce Hornsby also fits in this category.