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under the Sly & the Family Stone moniker were collected in this box by Sony in 2007. All albums include bonus tracks and new liner notes by various contemporary rock commentators alongside the pleasingly remastered original tracks and notes. The bonus tracks feature singles versions of the hit songs, some of them in mono, and some good and revealing music not previously available to the public (accounted for in the discussion of the individual albums, above).

Sources

LTHOUGH THE FOLLOWING includes numerous magazine and newspaper articles written about the Family Stone and/or Sly in a broad or specific context, there have been only two previous books dealing with the band with any biographical significance. Joel Selvin's Oral History, part of a series of similar books edited by Dave Marsh, is a collection of quotes from all band members except Sly and from related parties, and Miles Marshall Lewis's There's a Riot Goin' On focuses on the album of its title, with brief biographical material about Sly.

BOOKS

Amende, Coral. Rock Confidential. New York: Plume, 2000.

Bacon, Tony. The Bass Book: An Illustrated History of the Bass Guitar. San Francisco: Miller Freeman, 1995.

Braun, Eric. Doris Day. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991.

Clifford, Mike, ed. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Black Music. New York: Harmony, 1982.

Davis, Miles, with Quincy Troupe. Miles: The Autobiography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

Denyer, Ralph. The Guitar Handbook. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

Herman, Gary. Rock 'n' roll Babylon. London: Plexus, 1994.

Jonnes, Jill. Hep-Cats, Nares, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance with Illegal Drugs. New York: Scribner, 1996.

Larkin, Colin. The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music. London: Virgin, 1998.

Lewis, Miles Marshall. Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On. New York: Continuum, 2006.

Marcus, Greil. Mystery Train: Images ofAmerica in Rock 'n' roll Music. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1975.

Marsh, Dave, and Kevin Stein. The Book of Rock Lists. New York: Dell, 1984.

Miller, Jim, ed. The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. New York: Random House, 1976.

Santana, Deborah. Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart. New York: One World/Ballantine, 2006.

Selvin, Joel. Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History. New York: Harper, 1998.

Verna, Paul, ed. The Encyclopedia of Record Producers. New York:

Billboard, 1999.

Vincent, Rickey. Funk: The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the One. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1996.

Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums. New York: Billboard, 1987.

Wills, Maury, and Mike Celizic: On the Run: The Never Dull and Often Shocking Life of Maury Wills. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1991.

FILMS

Dance to the Music. Willen Alkema and Edwin and Arno Konings, 2008. The Skin I'm In (rough cut). Daedalus Productions, 2000.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Aletti, Vince. "There's a Riot Goin' On (review)." Rolling Stone, December 23, 1971.

Blashill, Pat, et al. "Fresh: Sly and the Family Stone." Rolling Stone, December 11, 2003: 138.

Bozza, Anthony. "Sly and the New Family Member." Rolling Stone, August 6, 1998: 31.

Edwards, Gavin. "The Essential Sly and the Family Stone" Rolling Stone, April 17, 2003: 109.

Fong-Torres, Ben. "Everybody Is a Star: Travels with Sly Stone." Rolling Stone, March 19, 1970.

Gore, Joe. "Old School Cool: A '70s Funk Lesson." Guitar Player, September 1994: 47-54.

Graff, Gary. "Sly and the Family Stone: Stand!" Guitar World, June 1999: 61.

Hiestand, Jesse. "Backstage at the Grammys." The Hollywood Reporter, February 9, 2006: 37.

Jisi, Chris. "Sly & the Family Stone's `If You Want Me to Stay'-Rus- tee Allen's Complete Bass Line." Bass Player, October 2006: 78.

Kamp, David. "Sly Stone's Higher Power." Vanity Fair, August 2007: 136-184.

Keegan, Rebecca Winters. "Reclusive Star Emerges, Has New Haircut." Time, February 20, 2006: 71.

Leslie, Jimmy. "Larry Graham: Trunk of the Funk Tree." Bass Player, May 2007: 30-37.

Marcus, Greil. "There's a Riot Goin' On: Muzak with Its Finger