Sly & The Family Stone — Fresh (Neon Orange)
#186 in Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Rock Albums of All Time
RSD Essential 50th Anniversary Edition Neon Orange Vinyl LP
Stripped down and funky beyond words, 1973’s Fresh is quite simply the last great album by Sly & The Family Stone. Funkadelic guru George Clinton, a man who knows something about genre cross-wiring, tabbed Fresh as one of his all-time favorites and convinced the Red Hot Chili Peppers to cut “If It Were Left Up To Me” for their 1985 Clinton-produced LP Freaky Styley. Jazz icon Miles Davis reportedly sat his band down to soak up inspiration from multiple playings of Fresh. “If You Want Me To Stay,” “Frisky” and “If It Were Left Up To Me” all got plenty of airplay and chart action, the last of Sly’s works to score such treatment.
This 50th Anniversary Edition is pressed on neon orange vinyl. A documentary on Sly & The Family Stone, directed by Questlove, is tentatively scheduled for 2023.
Released: 6/30/23
Label: Legacy
Vinyl:
Format:
- In Time
- If You Want Me To Stay
- Let Me Have It All
- Frisky
- Thankful N’ Thoughtful
- Skin I’m In
- I Don’t Know (Satisfaction)
- Keep On Dancin’
- Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
- If It Were Left Up To Me
- Babies Makin’ Babies