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Long before Michael Jackson and Prince became superstars by fusing rhythmic soul with rock's sense of scale and ambition, a former northern California deejay and producer named Sylvester Stewart took the vaunted musical utopianism of the 60s and forged it into the cross-cultural, ass-shaking, genre-bending groove monster that was Sly and the Family Stone. James Brown may have invented funk, but S&TFS masterfully tooled and supercharged it into mass-acceptance. No mere greatest hits collection (though they're all here in digitally remastered glory), this 35-track, double-disc anthology delves deeper into the handful of semina
Long before Michael Jackson and Prince became superstars by fusing rhythmic soul with rock's sense of scale and ambition, a former northern California deejay and producer named Sylvester Stewart took the vaunted musical utopianism of the 60s and forged it into the cross-cultural, ass-shaking, genre-bending groove monster that was Sly and the Family Stone. James Brown may have invented funk, but S&TFS masterfully tooled and supercharged it into mass-acceptance. No mere greatest hits collection (though they're all here in digitally remastered glory), this 35-track, double-disc anthology delves deeper into the handful of seminal albums the band produced before its leaders' long, troubling slide into drug abuse and oblivion. Given the chronological development, there's a sense here that Stewart/Stone's problems paralleled the increasingly militant and hard-edged stance the band took on albums like the uncompromising classic There's a Riot Going On. Propelled by Larry Graham's locomotive bass lines and accented by rousing horns, Sly and company swooped from the heights of 1969's hit-laden "Stand" towards a darker and more unsettling decade ahead. Few bands have soared higher--or fallen as far. --Jerry McCulley
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Manufacturer: Sony
Release date: 6 April 2003
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 5099751001829
Tags: Rose Stone (1), Dennis Marcellino (1), Adam Veaner (1), Vicki Blackwell (1), Sid Page (1), Bill Lordan (1), Rustee Allen (1), Max Kerr (1), Pat Rizzo (1), Gerry Gibson (1), Andy Newmark (1), Larry Graham (1), Elva Mouton (1), Mary McCreary (1), Vet Stewart (1), Jerry Martini (1), Cynthia Robinson (1), Freddie Stone (1), Sly Stone (1)
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