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Hear Unreleased Sly & The Family Stone Cut ‘Life of Fortune and Fame’ – SPIN
Exclusively at SPIN, you can listen to one of the unreleased tracks from Higher!, the 4-CD Sly & The Family Stone box set in stores August 27. Recorded during the Dance to the Music album sessions in July of 1967, the cut “Life of Fortune and Fame” starts off slowly but soon turns into a fully realized rock/soul fusion that was left, surprisingly, in the vaults up until now. It’s a song that Sly revisited several times early in his career.
Listen to “Life of Fortune and Fame” now at SPIN.
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Exclusive Rare Photos From Sly & The Family Stone’s ‘Higher!’ Box Set – GuitarWorld.com
To celebrate the release of Higher!, the 4-CD career-spanning box set from Sly & The Family Stone, GuitarWorld.com is presenting an exclusive photo gallery featuring several rare photos of Sly with various guitars, including Fenders and Gibsons. There’s even a vintage Ibanez ad for you to check out. View the gallery at GuitarWorld.com.
Sly with guitar – (c) Jim Marshall Photography LLC
Listen To Previously Unreleased ‘Undercat’ Track By Sly & The Family Stone – The A.V. Club
In anticipation of the August 27th release of Higher! by Sly & The Family Stone, The A.V. Club has the premiere of a previously unissued track from the 4-CD box set. “Undercat” is an instrumental recorded during the A Whole New Thing period in August 1967 that ended up becoming the song “Plastic Jim.”
Sly & The Family Stone ‘Dance To The Music’ (Live From The Isle Of Wight Festival) – VIBE Premiere
VIBE.com presents the world premiere of Sly & The Family Stone “Dance To The Music” (Live From The Isle Of Wright Festival) from the upcoming Higher! box set, in stores August 27th!
“In the summer of 1970, Sly & The Family Stone crossed the Atlantic a second time, for a ten-date jaunt visiting such capitals of Europe as London, Paris and Amsterdam. The most prestigious date of the tour was likely the third Isle of Wight Festival, held on the small island off the southern coast of England, from August 26–31. The documentary film of the previous year’s Woodstock Festival had come out that spring, and it seemed the UK was intent on matching the spectacle. With an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 people in attendance, Isle of Wight would be acknowledged as one of the largest musical events of the era.
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