{"id":808210,"date":"2020-06-09T06:43:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1011923"},"modified":"2020-06-09T06:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:43:31","slug":"earth-wind-and-fire-pledge-their-socially-distanced-devotion-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/earth-wind-and-fire-pledge-their-socially-distanced-devotion-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth, Wind and Fire Pledge Their Socially Distanced \u2018Devotion\u2019 on \u2018Colbert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/earth-wind-fire-devotion-colbert.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Funk and R&amp;B legends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/earth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_earth\" data-tag=\"earth\">Earth<\/a>, Wind and Fire shared a socially distanced rendition of their 1974 track \u201cDevotion\u201d as part of <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/late-show-with-stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_late-show-with-stephen-colbert\" data-tag=\"late-show-with-stephen-colbert\">Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/a><\/em>\u2019s #PlayAtHome series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With the many members of Earth, Wind and Fire self-isolating, the performance likely took some high-tech wrangling to patch together, but the results felt seamless and delightful. Frontman Philip Bailey led the way with a staggering vocal performance that found him pushing his falsetto to remarkable heights as he crooned the heartwarming lyrics, \u201cIn everyone\u2019s life, there\u2019s a need to be happy\/Let the sun shine, a smile your way\/Open your heart, feel the touch of devotion\/Maybe this song, will help uplift your day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Earth, Wind and Fire were supposed to embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/santana-earth-wind-fire-summer-tour-957711\/\">North American tour<\/a> with Santana this summer, but those dates are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santana.com\/news\/miraculous-supernatural-2020-tour-rescheduled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">being rescheduled<\/a> for 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As of now, the band still has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthwindandfire.com\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">handful of fall dates<\/a> on the books, starting with a pair of shows at the Pearl Concert Theater in Las Vegas, November 18th and 20th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2019, Earth, Wind and Fire were among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/earth-wind-fire-linda-ronstadt-kennedy-center-honors-860945\/\">recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors<\/a>, along with Linda Ronstadt, Sally Field and others. Bailey also released a new solo album, <em>Love Will Find a Way<\/em>, last year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/earth-wind-and-fire-pledge-their-socially-distanced-devotion-on-colbert-1011923\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funk and R&amp;B legends Earth, Wind and Fire shared a socially distanced rendition of their 1974 track \u201cDevotion\u201d as part of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert\u2019s #PlayAtHome series. With the many members of Earth, Wind and Fire self-isolating, the performance likely took some high-tech wrangling to patch together, but the results felt seamless and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-808210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 21:33:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}