Sly & The Family Stone - The First Family: Live 1967 - One Moon Records

Sly & The Family Stone | The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967

A new album release from One Moon Records, lp, cd and mp3 formats, the release notes follow below...

The First Family is an unprecedented live performance by the original Family Stone personnel, recorded just prior to their signing to Epic Records, and a full year before their chart breakthrough with ‘Dance To The Music.’ This is where it all began.

An after-hours set captured in March 1967 in Redwood City, just south of San Francisco, this fascinating recording explicates Sly Stone’s genius on a tremendously exciting and atmospheric set of vintage soul covers, peppered with the arrangements, motifs and intoxicating energy that would soon become familiar during the group’s ascent.

The historic performance on The First Family had lain buried for decades on a pair of 7-inch analog reels in the possession of the band’s first manager Rich Romanello. Accessed by top Sly sleuths Edwin & Arno Konings, Grammy-nominated reissue producer Alec Palao then worked diligently on the tapes to resuscitate the audio. Palao also contributed a hefty 15,000 word essay to the package’s deluxe 24-page booklet, loaded with rare visuals and memorabilia

With final mastering by Dan Hersch and a lacquer cut by Kevin Gray, the result is an electrifying forty minutes that proves that the genius and skill of Sly & The Family Stone came fully formed right from the womb. Indeed, this is where it all began.

Tracklisting:

I Ain’t Got Nobody (For Real)

Skate Now

Show Me

What Is Soul?

I Can’t Turn You Loose

Try A Little Tenderness **

Baby I Need Your Lovin’

Pucker Up Buttercup

Saint James Infirmary

I Gotta Go Now (Up On The Floor) / Funky Broadway

**CD/Digital Bonus Track

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