Sly Stone (1975) That's Loving' You - LOST70sGEMS

Sly Stone is a legend one of the true original artists and always will be and I want to celebrate him in his lifetime before we lose him like so many others, most recently Little Richard, Bill Withers, too many!

That's Loving' You carries a seductive string section that swaggers with the slinky guitar and vocal lines, Sly's vocals are nicely restrained..I mean for him, he also sounds very youthful with a more closed mouth drawl in this one as the guitar string bends up and down in a truly iconic melody, while there is a bluegrass violin solo that actually works! There's too much going on in this track to describe it all and it wouldn't do it justice as you must here how the different instrumentation interplay in a sweet upbeat soul classic.

I Get High on You is pumping rocker as festive organs, a Funkadelic/Billy Preston Duck quack synth jiggles along as the tune plays out in another gospel powered funk driven soul rocker; closest I can get to a description of his music. So Good to Me is a polished strut as wah wahs wrinkle and another delicious bass line hums along with Sly before some really torrid overdriven guitar stings enter before returning the hushed swag of the tune before another overdriven chorus that sounds very clipped, which is just too much for headphones but probably sounds pretty good on vinyl; hell you can't say this guy was ever boring/formulaic or at a loss for ideas.
The bass on both the washy organ track Green Eyed Monster and Who Do You Love?, with it's zany zipping guitar licks, is something overlooked; you r average Sly Stone track would always harbour a truly poppin bass part.


Le Lo Li is a Hawaiian inflected number that bears some swooning Santo and Johhny slide before Sly swoops in with another incredible melody/set of lyrics combo that mirrors the "different strokes for different folks" line from their big hit Everyday People back in the late 60s. Singing in his trademark style of strutting swaggering melodic nursery rhythms of 'Different pills for different thrills, different weeks for different freaks' Genius, you'll never see another like him as I finish my last in this Sly Stone Marathone as the great man himself would've most likely said it! Keep in Groovin Sly wherever you are during these panic times