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Sly & The Family Stone Fresh (180 Gram Vinyl) [Import] goblet and even the music’s poppierSly and the Family Stone created the blueprint for funk's direction in the late '60s; a sound dense, sophisticated, and complex on one hand, spacious and rhythmically elemental on the other, a style that seemed loose and open, yet demanded musical precision. In the early '70s, Sly left behind the churning, up tempo anthems to brotherhood and positive thinking to develop a darker, more introspective sound that focused ever more intently on the subtle