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"Sunday Morning" looks back at the legacies of two musical giants – the beating hearts of Sly and the Family Stone and the ...
I assumed that our new amphitheater would serve as the same magnet for diverse peoples as our annual Richmond Folk Festival, ...
Sly & The Family Stone's "Family Affair" saw a splintering band reach the highest heights of pop music one last time.
His songs, for generations of listeners, provided community, solace, and a sense of understanding.
Brian Wilson and Sly Stone were musical innovators whose public reputations diverged drastically toward the end of their ...
Sly Stone, the iconic frontman of the band Sly and the Family Stone, and an influential figure in funk, soul and rock, has ...
Born on March 15, 1943, in Texas, Sylvester Stewart grew up in North Carolina where he fell in love with music as a young boy ...
Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers ...
Woodstock is often remembered as a rock concert celebrating peace, love and music. But one of the best parts of the original ...
With the death of Sly Stone, Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid goes deep on the greatness and enduring influence of Stone and his band.
Sometimes the simplest songs convey the deepest truths, as seen in the first of the late Sly Stone and his Family Stone's ...