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Questlove’s Sly Lives! Is a Revealing Portrait of the Hazards of Genius
You walk out of Sly Lives! feeling like you’ve genuinely learned something, but you also walk out exhilarated.
looks at the life and career of the legendary Sly Stone, born Sylvester Stewart, who in the late 1960s and early ’70s revolutionized multiple genres of music and effectively created his own. Borrowing from gospel, folk, big band, blues, British invasion, and psychedelia, this supercharged human furnace of inspiration thumbed his nose at the regimented nature of the music industry. Jimmy Jam explaining, in precise detail, how he sampled a guitar bridge from Sly’s “Thank You” into the funk-background of Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” prompted a burst of applause from my audience.
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