Sly & the Family Stone - The Essential Sly & the Family Stone [Epic/Legacy]

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 Stand! and There's A Riot Goin' On albums are here. Read More