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Sly Stone – I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-70 (2xLP, Coloured Vinyl, Light in the Attic)

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  • I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-70 on purple colored vinyl 2LP!

    Compilation and notes by Alec Palao

    An exclusive new interview with Sly Stone himself

    In-depth liner notes with first-hand reminiscences of the Stone Flower era from many of the participants

    Features all five Stone Flower produced singles plus 10 previously unissued cuts from the label archives

    All tracks newly remastered from the original tapes

    In 1970, The Family Stone were at the peak of their popularity, but the maestro Sly Stone had already moved his head to a completely different space. The first evidence of Sly's musical about-turn was revealed by the small catalog of his new label, Stone Flower: a pioneering, peculiar, minimal electro-funk sound that unfolded over just four 7-inch singles. Stone Flower's releases were credited to their individual artists, but each had Sly's design and musicianship stamped into the grooves — and the words "Written by Sylvester Stewart/Produced and arranged by Sly Stone" on the sticker.

    Set up by Stone's manager David Kapralik with distribution by Atlantic Records, Stone Flower was, predictably, a family affair: the first release was by Little Sister, fronted by Stone's little sister Vaetta Stewart. It was short lived too — the imprint folded in 1971 — but its influence was longer lasting. The sound Stone formulated while working on Stone Flower's output would shape the next phase in his own career as a recording artist: it was here he began experimenting with the brand new Maestro Rhythm King drum machine. In conjunction with languid, effected organ and guitar sounds and a distinctly lo-fi soundscape, Sly's productions for Stone Flower would inform the basis of his masterwork There's A Riot Goin' On.

    The first 45 came in February 1970: Little Sister's dancefloor-ready "You're The One" hit No. 22 in the charts — the label's highest showing. The follow-up, "Stanga," also by Little Sister, made the wah pedal the star. The third release came from 6IX, a six-piece multi-racial rock group whose sole release, a super-slow version of The Family Stone's "Dynamite," featured only the lead singer and harmonica player from the group. Joe Hicks was the final Stone Flower stablemate; his pulsing, electronic "Life And Death In G&A" is one of the bleakest moments Sly Stone ever created on disc (Hicks' prior single for Scepter, "Home Sweet Home," the first released Stone Flower production, is also included).

    This long overdue compilation of Sly's Stone Flower era gathers each side of the five 45s plus 10 previously unissued cuts from the label archives, all newly remastered from the original tapes. In these grooves you'll find the missing link between the rocky, soulful Sly Stone of Stand! and the dark, drum machine-punctuated, overdubbed sound of There's A Riot Going On. I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-70 opens up the mysteries of an obscure but monumental phase in Stone's career.

  • Artist: Sly Stone
    Format: LP
    Units: 2
    Country: UK, Europe & US
    Genre: Soul & Funk
    Style: Funk
  • A1 Little Sister
    A2 Just Like A Baby
    A3 Home Sweet Home (Part 2)
    A4 I'M Just Like You
    A5 Somebody'S Watching You (Full Band Version)
    B1 Life & Death In G & A (Parts 1 & 2)
    B2 Trying To Make You Feel Good
    B3 Stanga
    B4 Dynamite
    B5 You'Re The One (Early Version)
    C1 I'M Goin' Home (Part 1)
    C2 Africa
    C3 Somebody'S Watching You
    C4 You Can, We Can
    D1 I'M Just Like You (Full Band Version)
    D2 Spirit
    D3 Dynamite (Alternate Version)
    D4 Scared