The other revelation of Finding the Funk is how the working-class city of Dayton, Ohio, became a hotbed of funk bands such as the Ohio Players, Zapp & Roger, Faze-O, Heatwave, Sun, Slave and Lakeside.

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Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his ...

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The music was a blowout of frantic horns, rapid-fire guitar and locomotive rhythms, a melting pot of jazz, psychedelic rock, doo-wop, soul and the early grooves of funk. Sly’s time on top was brief, ...

Stone, an eccentric whose songs of uplift were tempered by darker themes of struggle and disillusionment, had a fall as steep ...

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Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, ...

Capercaillie started off traditional and, while that remained in their backbone, and indeed their soul, they went on to incorporate funk, jazz ...

Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his family. Stone was 82 years old.

Funk pioneer Sly Stone, a onetime San Francisco DJ turned pop music innovator and leader of Sly and the Family Stone, has ...