Description
*This is a Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 2023
Label: Epic Records
50th Anniversary Edition Neon Orange Vinyl
Track List
Side A
A1. In Time 5:47
A2. If You Want Me To Stay 3:03
A3. Let Me Have It All 2:56
A4. Frisky 3:10
A5. Thankful N’ Thoughtful 4:40
Side B
B1. Skin I’m In 2:53
B2. I Don’t Know (Satisfaction) 3:51
B3. Keep On Dancin’ 2:23
B4. Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be) 5:20
B5. If It Were Left Up To Me 1:58
B6. Babies Makin’ Babies 3:38
Personnel
Bass – Rusty Allen
Drums – Andy Newmark
Guitar – Freddie Stone
Piano, Vocals – Rose Stone
Saxophone – Jerry Martini, Pat Rizzo
Trumpet – Cynthia Robinson
Vocals [Background] – Little Sister
Notes
Stripped down and funky beyond words, 1973’s Fresh is quite simply the last great album by Sly & the Family Stone. Funkadelic guru George Clinton, a man who knows something about genre cross-wiring, tabbed Fresh as one of his all-time favorites and convinced the Red Hot Chili Peppers to cut “If It Were Left Up To Me” for their 1985 Clinton-produced LP Freaky Styley. Jazz icon Miles Davis reportedly sat his band down to soak up inspiration from multiple playings of Fresh, a work ranked #186 in Rolling Stone’s top 500 rock albums of all time. “If You Want Me To Stay,” “Frisky” and “If It Were Left Up To Me” all got plenty of airplay and chart action, the last of Sly’s works to score such treatment. Following the almost-scary political manifesto of 1971’s There’s A Riot Goin’ On, Fresh seems particularly, well, fresh! And a little nasty too!
