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The Woodstock Experience [Digipak]Sly & the Family Stone
Release Date: 06/30/2009
Original Release:
2009
# of Discs:
2
J&R Item # 1076097_CD
UPC # 886974824121
Label: Legacy Recordings
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Performer: Sly & the Family Stone
Engineer: Eddie Kramer; Lee Osborne Producer: Jerry Goldstein; Sly Stone Distributor: Sony Music Distribution ( Notes: Audio Mixers: Eddie Kramer; Lee Osborne. Audio Remasterer: Vic Anesini. Arranger: Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart. Sony/BMG's Legacy imprint decided to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock by issuing a slew of double-disc deluxe packages by catalog artists who played the festival. Each slipcase contains the featured artist's entire performance at Woodstock and, as a bonus, an LP sleeve reproduction of a classic album issued near the time the festival occurred, as well as fine, individually designed double-sided poster. Sly & the Family Stone were riding the chart success of their album STAND!, when they played the Woodstock Festival--bringing their West Coast meld of soul, R&B, gospel, and the newly emerging funk to the tired masses and turning them into a stomping, screaming, joyous, army of believers. The band came storming out of the gate with "M'Lady," and didn't stop for 50 minutes. Hearing this set reconstructed in its original context is a gift.
Down Beat (p.62) - "Heavy on mind-blowing enthusiasm, they cut a swath through the hippie hordes with psychedelic r&b dance music..."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Sly can arguably lay claim to being the one performer to truly unite the entire hippy throng with the field-blasting 'I Want To Take You Higher' call-and-response..."
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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