I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly and the Family Stone (28 page)

For those not wanting to buy or to carry around the big Collection
box, this is an excellent remastered two-disc, thirty-five-track
alternative, including not only all the hits (with notation of their
placement on the charts) but also some of the best of the other
Epic tracks, dating back to A Whole New Thing and ahead to High
on You. It's arguably the best way for a listener to grasp the scope
of Sly and the band's history.

The first seven LPs released by Epic under the Sly & the Family
Stone moniker were collected in this box by Sony in 2007. All
albums include bonus tracks and new liner notes by various contemporary rock commentators alongside the pleasingly remastered original tracks and notes. The bonus tracks feature singles
versions of the hit songs, some of them in mono, and some good
and revealing music not previously available to the public
(accounted for in the discussion of the individual albums, above).

LTHOUGH THE FOLLOWING
includes numerous magazine and
newspaper articles written about
the Family Stone and/or Sly in a broad or specific context, there
have been only two previous books dealing with the band with any
biographical significance. Joel Selvin's Oral History, part of a series
of similar books edited by Dave Marsh, is a collection of quotes
from all band members except Sly and from related parties, and
Miles Marshall Lewis's There's a Riot Goin' On focuses on the
album of its title, with brief biographical material about Sly.

Amende, Coral. Rock Confidential. New York: Plume, 2000.

Bacon, Tony. The Bass Book: An Illustrated History of the Bass Guitar.
San Francisco: Miller Freeman, 1995.

Braun, Eric. Doris Day. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991.

Clifford, Mike, ed. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Black Music. New
York: Harmony, 1982.

Davis, Miles, with Quincy Troupe. Miles: The Autobiography. New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

Denyer, Ralph. The Guitar Handbook. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1996.

Herman, Gary. Rock 'n' roll Babylon. London: Plexus, 1994.

Jonnes, Jill. Hep-Cats, Nares, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's
Romance with Illegal Drugs. New York: Scribner, 1996.

Larkin, Colin. The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music. London: Virgin, 1998.

Lewis, Miles Marshall. Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin'
On. New York: Continuum, 2006.

Marcus, Greil. Mystery Train: Images ofAmerica in Rock 'n' roll Music.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1975.

Marsh, Dave, and Kevin Stein. The Book of Rock Lists. New York: Dell,
1984.

Miller, Jim, ed. The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll.
New York: Random House, 1976.

Santana, Deborah. Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open
Heart. New York: One World/Ballantine, 2006.

Selvin, Joel. Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History. New York:
Harper, 1998.

Verna, Paul, ed. The Encyclopedia of Record Producers. New York:

Billboard, 1999.

Vincent, Rickey. Funk: The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the
One. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1996.

Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums. New York: Billboard, 1987.

Wills, Maury, and Mike Celizic: On the Run: The Never Dull and
Often Shocking Life of Maury Wills. New York: Carroll and Graf,
1991.

Dance to the Music. Willen Alkema and Edwin and Arno Konings, 2008.
The Skin I'm In (rough cut). Daedalus Productions, 2000.

Aletti, Vince. "There's a Riot Goin' On (review)." Rolling Stone,
December 23, 1971.

Blashill, Pat, et al. "Fresh: Sly and the Family Stone." Rolling Stone,
December 11, 2003: 138.

Bozza, Anthony. "Sly and the New Family Member." Rolling Stone,
August 6, 1998: 31.

Edwards, Gavin. "The Essential Sly and the Family Stone" Rolling
Stone, April 17, 2003: 109.

Fong-Torres, Ben. "Everybody Is a Star: Travels with Sly Stone."
Rolling Stone, March 19, 1970.

Gore, Joe. "Old School Cool: A '70s Funk Lesson." Guitar Player, September 1994: 47-54.

Graff, Gary. "Sly and the Family Stone: Stand!" Guitar World, June
1999: 61.

Hiestand, Jesse. "Backstage at the Grammys." The Hollywood Reporter,
February 9, 2006: 37.

Jisi, Chris. "Sly & the Family Stone's `If You Want Me to Stay'-Rus-
tee Allen's Complete Bass Line." Bass Player, October 2006: 78.

Kamp, David. "Sly Stone's Higher Power." Vanity Fair, August 2007:
136-184.

Keegan, Rebecca Winters. "Reclusive Star Emerges, Has New Haircut."
Time, February 20, 2006: 71.

Leslie, Jimmy. "Larry Graham: Trunk of the Funk Tree." Bass Player,
May 2007: 30-37.

Marcus, Greil. "There's a Riot Goin' On: Muzak with Its Finger on the
Trigger." Creem, April 1972: 14.

Novak, Ralph, and Todd Gold. "The Decline and Fall of Sly Stone."
People, June 17, 1996: 139-143.

Orth, Maureen. "A Family Affair-for 23,000." Newsweek, June 17,
1974: 62

Selvin, Joel. "Lucifer Rising." Mojo, August 2001: 80-9 1.

"Sly's Arena Wedding." Rolling Stone, May 19, 2005: 26.

"Sly Stone's Heart of Darkness." Spin, December 1985: 44-67.

Trow, George W. S. "The Biggest Event This Year." The New Yorker,
August 26, 1974: 30-45.

Was, Don. "Sly and the Family Stone." Rolling Stone, April 15,2004:132.

Wilkinson, Peter. "Sly's Strange Comeback." Rolling Stone, March 9,
2006: 17-20.

"Arrest Warrant Issued for Rock Singer Sly Stone." The Vancouver Sun,
December 10, 1987: F-4.

Bracelin, Jason. "Sly Comes in from the Cold." Las Vegas ReviewJournal, April 2, 2007.

Carey, Derek. "Sly Stone Takes Stand for Comebacks." Reuters News
Agency, November 22, 2007.

Concert review. De Standaard (Gossetlaan, Belgium), July 16, 2007.

Concert review. Free! (magazine), July 21, 2007.

Concert review. TV5 Monde (Nice, France), July 20, 2007.

"Daley Says Rioting at Rock Concert Was Planned." New York Times,
July 29, 1970.

Du Lac, J. Freedom. "Sly Stone's Surprise." Washington Post, January
27, 2006.

Kaliss, Jeff. "Stone Is at Work but He Keeps It on the Sly." Los Angeles
Times, January 9, 2007.

Katsilometes, John. "How George Wallace Aligned the Stars to Coerce
One Big Star to Perform at Flamingo Las Vegas." Las Vegas Sun,
April 2, 2007.

Lacey, Liam. "Sly's Abortive Concert a Sad Embarrassment." Toronto
Globe and Mail, March 6, 1982: E-3.

O'Hagan, Sean. "I Want to Take You ... Lower" The Observer (London, England), July 15, 2007.

Pond, Steve. Concert review. Los Angeles Times, November 13, 1987.

Quillen, Shay. "Sly Stone Shows Up, Goes Nowhere Fast in San Jose
Concert." San Jose Mercury-News, July 8, 2007.

Saneh, Kelefa. "For $103.35, You Take What You Can Get." New York
Times, November 22, 2007.

Schmitter, Blaise. "Sly's First European Club Performance: Overwhelming!" Funk-U (magazine) (Paris, France), July 24, 2007.

Selvin, Joel. "Sly Stone Takes the Stage, but the Flair Is a No-Show."
San Francisco Chronicle, July 9, 2007.

Senff, Boris. Concert review. Le Temps (Geneva, Switzerland), July 15,
2007.

"Sly and the Family Stone Plays to a Sell-Out Crowd at Garden." New
York Times, September 12, 1971: 94.

"Sly Opens Series at Radio City to an Unimpressed Audience." New
York Times, January 18, 1975.

"Sly Stone Jailed on Drug Charges" The Ottawa Citizen, February 19,
1987: E-2.

"Sly Stone Jailed for Illegal Gun." Toronto Globe and Mail, February
10,1983:23.

"Stone Jailed on Theft Charge." Toronto Globe and Mail, August 20,
1983: E-2.

"3 Shot in Chicago During Rock Riot." New York Times, July 28,
1970: 1.

Wallace, George. "Sly Joins the Family Stone for His First Show in Two
Decades, As Wallace's Special Guest." PR Newswire, April 2, 2007.