Dance to the Music by Sly and the Family Stone

Dance to the Music, the second album from San Francisco's Sly and the Family Stone, came out on Epic in April 1968, and it's where Sly Stone, producing his own band, found the sound that changed everything. The title track, a Top Ten hit, helped shape psychedelic soul and laid the foundations for funk.

And what a band it was: Sly with his brother Freddie Stone on guitar and sister Rose Stone on keys, Cynthia Robinson on trumpet, Jerry Martini on saxophone, Greg Errico on drums and Larry Graham on bass, men and women, Black and white, the first major American rock group built that way. The record is a riot of horns, fuzz, gospel shouts and bass that thumps like a heartbeat, a party with a point.

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