Sly & The Family Stone

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.

• Blood, Sweat & Tears
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• Funkadelic
• Jimi Hendrix
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• Ohio Players
• Rare Earth
• Santana/Carlos Santana
• Sons Of Champlin
• Stevie Wonder
• The Blues Project
• The Chambers Brothers
• The Isley Brothers
• The Temptations (R&B)

• Big Joe Turner
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• Booker T. & The MG's
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• Parliament
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• Beck
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• Earth, Wind & Fire
• Fishbone
• Graham Central Station
• Kool & The Gang
• Lenny Kravitz
• Mandrill
• Prince
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Rick James
• War

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