Sly Stone - High on You

The first album attributed to Sly Stone rather than Sly & The Family Stone, High On You didn't exactly resurrect the troubled artist's sinking career, but it does remain one of the better straight-up funk albums of the '70s. Released during the same mid-'70s era that spawned vibrant funk albums such as The Commodores' Machine Gun, Parliament's Up For The Down Stroke, and The Ohio Players' Skin Tight, along with the first Graham Central Station albums, High On You seems like a genre exercise for Sly -- rather than trailblazing new sounds like he did five years earlier, he's now embracing the sound of the times. Read More