The Music Book Collector just released a pictorial overview of Sly And The Family Stone's career, full off Album Jackets, Picture sleeves and records labels, plus an extensive discography. This book is composed by Dutch Funk guru twins Edwin and Arno Konings. This hardcover book contains 192 color pages that covers the entire discography of Sly And The Family Stone.

All single and album sleeves from the first release, as the group Stewart Four, till recent releases are printed in full color in this amazing book. It also contains promotional pictures and newspaper articles. This book also cover the sleeves of artists where Sly Stone was involved as writer, arranger or producer. A few names that are listed are Billy Preston, Bobby Freeman, The Beau Brummels and many more, for me unknown names. It is a good source for hunting for the complete Sly Stone discography. This superb book is a must for the Sly Stone fan and for other serious collector. This book is also of outstanding quality the authors are really taking care of it. I'm very pleased to have this on my bookshelf.

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From the press release

English:
Sly and The Family Stone still count as one of the most innovative groups popular music has ever known. Starting in 1966, their sound was a unique, unknown fusion of soul, jazz, rock, R&Band psychedelia. Covering the entire discography of Sly & The Family Stone this book is a completecareer overview, from the first gospel recordingby the Stewart Four, through to the recently released box set, as well as each members solo work in the years before and since, illustrated with vinyl releases from all over the world. As a special bonus, the first 1000 copies of the book come with a 45rpm reproduction of the hyper-rare Stewart Four 78rpm from 1952.

Dutch:
Sly and The Family Stone geldt nog steeds als een van de meest innovatieve bands aller tijden. Vanaf 1966 ontwikkelde de band een tot dan toeongekende mix van soul, jazz, rock, R&B en psychedelia, die zeer invloedrijk zou blijken. Het boek brengt de gehele discografie van Sly and The Family Stone in beeld, van de eerste gospelopnames van The Stewart Four tot aan de onlangs uitgebrachte boxset, plus het solowerk van alle bandleden van voor en na het actieve bestaan van de groep - geïllustreerd met talloze plaat producties uit de hele wereld. Bij de eerste 1000 exemplaren van het boek zit een 45-toeren reproductie van de zeer zeldzame 78-toeren single van The Stewart Four uit 1952.