User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
- Record Label: Cleopatra
- Release Date: Aug 16, 2011
- Summary: The comeback album for the funk legend features guest appearances by Jeff Beck, Bootsy Collins, Ray Manzarek, and Ann Wilson.
Buy Now
- Record Label: Cleopatra
- Genre(s): R&B, Soul, Funk, Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Psychedelic/Garage, AM Pop, Psychedelic Soul
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 0 out of 5
-
Mixed: 2 out of 5
-
Negative: 3 out of 5
-
Aug 16, 2011The results are spunky, if unnecessary: Why bother with Sly and Jeff Beck's remake of "(I Want to Take You) Higher" when you can listen to the torrid original?
-
Aug 12, 2011There's promise in three new funk workouts toward the end; they suggest it's time for a whole new thing.
-
Aug 16, 2011Three new tracks (including a dreamy take on the gospel standard "His Eye Is on the Sparrow") provide a glimmer of what Stone might accomplish if he ever rouses himself more fully.
-
Aug 25, 2011Contrary to its emphatic title, I'm Back! Family And Friends isn't so much a full-fledged comeback album as a mildly inspiring three-song EP surrounded by truly horrible re-recordings and remixes of Stone's biggest hits of the late '60s and early '70s.
-
Aug 15, 2011As songs, these are not outright disasters -- they're not bad evocations of post-Riot funk -- but they're saddled with the same awful production that hobbles the re-creations, the same sticky, tacky, desperate replication of the past that only underscores just how long ago Sly's golden years were.
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 0 out of
-
Mixed: 0 out of
-
Negative: 0 out of