Finally, we come to the tenth and last album from the third and last day of the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival. The closing act was Sly and the Family Stone.
Like fellow festival stars Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter, Sly Stone was born in Texas. In fact, he was born quite close to the festival, on the outskirts of Dallas, just as the festival was on the outskirts of the city. However, the media didn't notice this. That's probably because he moved with his family to the San Francisco Bay area by the time he was a teenager.
In 1969, Sly and the Family Stone hit it big, with multiple hits that year. Even as the festival was going on, one of their songs, "Hot Fun in the Summertime," was Number Two in the U.S. charts. That was fitting, since the festival took place at the tail end of summer, and it was very hot for all three days.
Sly Stone was notorious for going on stage late, if he managed to make it at all, often due to heavy drug use. That was a problem with this festival too. The band's set started well after midnight, and over an hour after the previous musical act left the stage. But once the band started playing music, they put on an excellent performance. The next day, the Dallas Morning News reported that "because of the later hour, they could not perform nearly as long as the audience wanted them to." However, "Although the crowd was long on its feet, the mood continued to soar," with the song "Higher" being a highlight, as it usually was.
Note also that the band the Nazz performed at the festival, and a little bit of their music has survived. However, I haven't included it for a couple of reasons. For one, the bootleg of it is an audience boot, and it sounds worse than the other audience boot sections of the festival. But also, the main singer and songwriter in the band was Todd Rundgren, and he'd left the band by the time this festival happened. But if you want to hear what they did, you can find 18 minutes of their set on YouTube.
This album is 50 minutes long.
01 M'Lady [Edit] (Sly & the Family Stone)
02 Sing a Simple Song [Edit] (Sly & the Family Stone)
03 You Can Make It If You Try [Edit] (Sly & the Family Stone)
04 Stand - Love City (Sly & the Family Stone)
05 talk (Sly & the Family Stone)
06 Everyday People [Edit] (Sly & the Family Stone)
07 Dance to the Music - Music Lover [Edit] (Sly & the Family Stone)
08 Higher - I Wanna Take You Higher [Edit] (Sly & the Family Stone)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/E4b5oEgb
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/qiYBztR8McLSotF/file
The cover photo of Sly Stone is from this exact concert.
Obrigado!
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