(aka The Burden of Black Genius). The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who headed up Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and 1970s. The group’s hits, including “Everyday People,” “Dance to ...

Stone somehow snuck the h-word past the show’s producers). Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden of Black Genius) has two things going on, the first being a celebration of a genius singer-songwriter ...

“Sly Lives” is about Sly Stone, but it’s really about this burden of Black genius. The Dilla story is about a man who affected time — both in his music and in the life he lived. At one ...

To follow up his Oscar-winning Summer of Soul, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson turned his focus on one of the landmark acts ...

"The Winchester Cathedral recordings showcase a one-of-kind outfit that was already at the peak of its powers, long before it ...

Nearly 60 years after it was recorded, a legendary early club set from Sly & the Family Stone will finally be officially ...

Sly Stone, for all the grit of his aesthetic ... Yet it’s around this time that the burden of Black genius kicks in. We see a telling clip of Sly on “The Dick Cavett Show,” where Cavett ...

Sly & The Family Stone are planning on releasing the oldest unreleased recording of the funk band live, according to recent reports.

(aka The Burden of Black Genius). The film focuses on Sly Stone, a funk musician who headed up Sly & the Family Stone in the 1960s and 1970s. Sponsor Message The group's hits, including "Everyday ...

His documentary, SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), examines Sly Stone's enormous impact on music — and the price he paid for it. "Sly will invent the alphabet for which most of pop ...