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NME.com reports that Sly Stone’s new album “I’m Back! Family & Friends,” which is scheduled to be released on August 16th, will include 11 tracks and the following collaborators:

1. “Dance To The Music” with Ray Manzarek
2. “Everyday People” with Ann Wilson
3. “Family Affair”
4. “Stand!” with Carmine Appice & Ernie Watts
5. “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” with Johnny Winter
6. “(I Want To Take You) Higher” with Jeff Beck
7. “Hot Fun In The Summertime” with Bootsy Collins
8. “Dance To The Music”
9. “Plain Jane”
10. “His Eye Is On The Sparrow”
11. “Get Away”

The Star Tribune reports that Sly Stone is set to release his new album, “I’m Back! Family & Friends” on August 16th. The album will feature Sly redoing hits including “Everyday People” and “Family Affair,” with the help of Jeff Beck, Johnny Winter, Heart’s Ann Wilson, Bootsy Collins, the Doors’ Ray Manzarek and others. The 11-song album also will feature three previously unreleased tracks, including the traditional song “His Eye Is On The Sparrow,” the newspaper reports.

Read more at the Star Tribune.

The U.K.’s Observer newspaper has ranked Sly and the Family Stone’s album “Stand!” at number 15 in its series of 50 key events in the history of rock music. The newspaper wrote, “Sly Stone took the live excitement of the Stax Soul Revue, grafted on James Brown’s completely functional, rhythm-as-a pure-state funk, and mixed in the heightened airs of psychedelia. … No one else could have made it quite as tight and loose, as blessed and blithe spirited.”

Read more at Guardian.co.uk.

In an interview with the South Bend Tribune newspaper, blues guitarist Johnny Winter said he recently worked in the studio with Sly Stone, as a guest guitarist for a new version of “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).” He said Sly “is doing the old stuff. It was fun. I enjoyed doing it. I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t like it.” You can read more at SouthBendTribune.com.