FTC: Sly & The Family Stone
A From the Closet featuring the great Sly & The Family Stone band seems appropriate this week since ATH took the day off on Monday for the great MLK Jr. Sly and his band, while doing it a bit more aggressively than the late Dr. King, also promoted the ideals of a world without racism and discrimination. I mean this band was integrated wayyyy before being integrated was cool. White boys in a funk band? No way! Don’t tell that to Sly Stone. With such a huge discography of music a choice could be hard, but not when a band has such a huge hit like “Everyday People”. Appearing on the groups biggest album Stand! of 1968, this hit sums up the style of Sly: heavy psych-funk beats with a simple message of peace. I’ve also got to admit that this was one of the first songs I ever really fell head over heals for. My mom had the Sly & The Family Stone greatest hits on vinyl and I jammed the shit out of this song on my Fisher Price record player. This is easily one of my top 10 songs of all time.
After dropping a new single our way last month
