#sly & the family stone

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Sly & The Family Stone, 1969 ♡

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Sly and the Family Stone

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Sly Stone in San Jose, 1978 by Jim Marshall, my edit of original via legacy

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Yeah Questlove did it again.

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Sly & The Family Stone, Stand!

It’s the truth That the truth Makes them so uptight

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Larry Graham *August 14, 1946

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Sly Stone wrote, produced and arranged music, winning acclaim as the author of invigorating anthems and an inventor of new, more complex recording sounds / Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

In Sly & the Family Stone’s prime, from 1968 to 1973, the band was one of music’s greatest live acts as well as a fount of remarkable singles including “Everyday People” and “Hot Fun in the Summertime.”

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Style and the Family Belt

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MUSIC MONDAY: "Everyday People": The Essential Sly and the Family Stone Collection (LISTEN)

by Marlon West (Bluesky: @marlonweststl.bsky.social, Spotify: marlonwest) Greetings! It’s your friend and selector, Marlon, again. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s joyous, crisply edited and well observed documentary about Sly Stone dropped in February on Hulu and Disney+. SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) is a worthy follow-up to the Oscar-winning documentary Summer of Soul, and examines…

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Sly & the Family Stone, 1973.

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Sly & the Family Stone — "Thank You For Talkin' to Me, Africa" from There's a Riot Goin' On (Epic 1971)

I watched that Sly Stone documentary that Questlove directed the other night Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) it's on Hulu and Disney+, but I suggest you pirate it because reasons. It's a significantly better than average music documentary, lots of great footage, plenty of insightful interviews with band members and musicians Sly influenced (Andre 3000, Q-Tip, Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis, Chaka Khan, George Clinton et. al.) and does a really fantastic job contextualizing his music and emphasizing just how important he was.

I've always liked his music, I heard There's a Riot Goin' On when I was nineteen or so and getting into '70s R&B/Funk and I had it on repeat for days after that first listen, but coming to his music with the knowledge of everything that came after you don't really get the full impact of what he did. No one, I mean no one, was this funky in fuckin' 1971 not even Funkadelic was this funky.

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Sly & The Family Stone