Sly Stone slipped off the radar long before he slid intoseclusion, his long fade away beginning at the peak of disco, hisReagan-era albums for Warner roundly ignored. He disappeared after1982´s Ain´t But The One Way, yet rumours of a comeback continuedto surface well into the new millennium, gaining momentum in 2006when Sly gave his first public appearance in decades during thatyear´s Grammy Award tribute to Sly & the Family Stone. It was,like so much surrounding Sly, a botched performance, but he didventure out for some genuine concerts not long afterward and anexcellent 2007 Vanity Fair piece from David Kamp suggested thatStone was working on new music, music that would constitute agenuine comeback, modestly raising expectations that Sly may havefinally pulled his act together. Given his history, it should comeas no shock that this turns out not to be the case. The comebackalbum, hopefully if desperately titled I´m Back!, is a garish messbuilt largely on inept re-creations of classic Family Stonesingles, sometimes assisted by guests shoehorned into the originalarrangements. Jeff Beck muscles some fuzz guitar into "(I Want toTake You) Higher" and Bootsy Collins relaxes into "Hot Fun in theSummertime," but to no avail: their spirited efforts can´t salvagethe cavernous plastic arrangements, all built with too much sterileseparation. These re-creations are at least marginally better thanthe atrocious "remixes" -- of the re-creations, not the originals-- tacked onto the end of the record, but most disappointing arethe two originals, "Plain Jane" and "Get Away," tossed away in themiddle of the record. As songs, these are not outright disasters --they´re not bad evocations of post-Riot funk -- but they´re saddledwith the same awful production that hobbles the re-creations, thesame sticky, tacky, desperate replication of the past that onlyunderscores just how long ago Sly´s golden years were. Othernotable guests on the album besides Jeff Beck are Ray Manzarek fromThe Doors, Ann Wilson from Heart, Carmine Appice from Rod Stewart,Vanilla Fudge, King Kobra to name a few, Johnny Winter and BootsyCollins

Track list:
1. Dance To The Music
2. Everyday People
3. Family Affair
4. Stand!
5. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
6. (I Want To Take You) Higher
7. Hot Fun In The Summertime
8. Plain Jane
9. His Eye Is On The Sparrow
10. Get Away

Condition cover: mint

Condition vinyl: mint

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