Sly & the Family Stone - The Essential (Double CD)

Artist/s: Sly and the Family Stone

CD Title: The Essential

CD Status: Pre-owned

CD Condition: VG+/NM (see grading Guide)

CD Information:
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 STFS 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.

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