Dance to the Music

Performer: Sly & the Family Stone
Engineer: Brian Ross-Myring; Don Puluse
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: No group epitomized the turbulent social upheaval of the late '60s more than Sly & The Family Stone. This gender-integrated, multi-ethnic band was led by 23-year-old Sly Stone (aka Sylvester Stewart), a former DJ/producer. On DANCE TO THE MUSIC, whose title track became a Top Ten hit, the group utilized heaping amounts of horns, fuzz guitar, and bottom-heavy bass for a form of modern soul-rock that influenced contemporaries from Miles Davis and George Benson to The Temptations. Sly's legacy later steered the course for funk in the '70s and was a major influence on Prince.

Rolling Stone (9/21/95, p.85) - 3 Stars - Good - "...Overall the album is uneven, but its highs are intense, prolonged, ecstatic. Earthy bass and drums put a spring in your step while seductive melodies and horn lines tickle your mind..." Q (p.124) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "DANCE TO THE MUSIC's title track was a joyous, stomping anthem, brilliantly arranged, and their first hit single."

Sylvester Stewart, known to the world as Sly Stone, had a musical vision that coalesced quickly in the late 1960s and sadly disintegrated after half a decade. As the leader of Sly & the Family Stone, he and his combination hippie commune/soul revue melded funk with psychedelia in a revolutionary manner. Sly's lyrical themes shifted from peace and love to scathing social commentaries that made for some of the strongest political statements of the era. Unfortunately, by the turn of the decade he began to lose himself in a netherworld of drug addiction from which he never really recovered.

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