Sly & The Family Stone – Greatest Hits (CD) Vinyl_maggieRose it's hard to shake the

it's hard to shake the feeling that something's missing—you can't help but autofill Daşdemir's haunting timbre into "Öldürme Beni

have been playing together for over a decade and it's the first time they've appeared on a full length record together

and that looseness is exactly what makes it compelling

Rockin In The Free World (4:42)

Printed for the Seventeenth Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus in Albuquerque

Sly & The Family Stone – Greatest Hits (CD) Vinyl_maggieRose it's hard to shake theSly Stone built something that had no real precedent: a racially and gender integrated band playing a combustible mix of funk, soul, rock, and psychedelia at a moment when American music, and American society, were cracking open. The Family Stone's influence runs straight through Prince, hip hop, and virtually every funk rooted act that followed. These tracks weren't just radio hits; they were dispatches from a genuine cultural revolution. If ever a