This career-spanning Sly Stone anthology features 77 tracks, 17 previously unreleased: alternate versions, mono singles, demos, instrumental tracks, live concert and TV recordings. A detailed 104-page book features liner notes, illustrated timeline of Sly's career, track-by-track annotations, rare photography & label repros, vintage concert posters and more.
Released in celebration of Sly Stone's 70th birthday, Higher! is the first career-spanning anthology to celebrate the musician whose funk has influenced everyone from Miles Davis and Michael Jackson to Public Enemy and the Roots.
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