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A snippet of music history will hit the shelves on July 18 with the new Sly & The Family Stone album The First Family: Live ...
The Otis Redding cover appears on the upcoming LP The First Family, which contains the earliest known live recording of the ...
Melodie de Nelson’ on Big Stir Records is a pop anthology of Nelson Bragg’s 21st century recordings plus a new bouncy opening ...
Sly & The Family Stone, photo courtesy of High Moon Records. On June 9, Sly Stone, the fearless innovator behind Sly & The ...
This week's episode of the Crunkadelic Funk Show was another edition of Unexpected Covers! Featured covers from Brittany Howard, Dolly Parton, The Robert Glasper Experiment, Aaliyah, D'Angelo, Jazmine ...
Just a week before Sly Stone‘s death last month, it was announced that the earliest known Sly and The Family Stone recording would be released as a live album titled The First Family: Live at ...
We're joined by music historian and professor Rickey Vincent to talk about the legacy of Sly Stone. He talks to us about what made the funk icon so special and why there'll never be another like Sly ...
The album ranges from a full-on Sly Stone homage on the Andra Day duet “Lean on My Love” to the title track’s mutated Chess ...
Stevie Wonder finished his Love, Light and Song tour in London’s Hyde Park by saying “every single person who is blind should ...
Stevie Wonder, one of the most prolific musical geniuses of the 20 th century, who has won 25 Grammys, released 23 studio albums and influenced countless musicians across R&B, jaz ...
The show also continued to be a family affair – Wonder, 75, invited several of his inevitably talented children to the stage to sing with him, including his daughter Aisha (also a backing singer), who ...
We lost several noteworthy singers recently such as Brian Wilson, Sly Stone, Roberta Flack and Rick Derringer. Ironically, these singers were around the same age. Also, we lost Peter Yarrow of the ...