The Essential Sly & the Family Stone does what a double-CD best-of/career overview should do: it packs a lot of career highlights into a two-disc set for listeners who want more than the basic greatest hits, but don't want every last album. Of course, all of those greatest hits are here, including a few from 1970 that didn't make it onto album releases at the time. As you'd expect, the fattest slice comes from Sly & the Family Stone's late-'60s/early-'70s peak: in fact, most of the tracks from the {^...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. According to legend, Sly's disillusionment with progress in the Civil Rights movement, coupled with personal problems, led to a two-year delay before Riot appeared in 1971. What's evident in the grooves is that the Family Stone's sound got darker and even funkier. 'Family Affair,' was a monstrous chart item, but even with the extra studio time, some of the tracks are skeletal, almost unfinished-sounding. Sly's hugely successful non-album single 'Thank You (Fallettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)' is tu...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Originally issued by Epic in 1967. Nothing said it better than the title of Sly & the Family Stone's 1967 debut album! They were, indeed, A Whole New Thing! Over his first six groundbreaking Epic LPs, Sly Stone -- a maverick studio genius who heard things nobody else did, turned the worlds of soul, R&B, funk and psychedelia completely upside-down with his breathtakingly innovative band, the Family Stone. Pop music was shaken to its very core by this racially-mixed aggregation of men and women...   [ read more ]

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