Small Talk (album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
Small Talk
Small Talk cover
Studio album by Sly & the Family Stone
Released 1974
Recorded 1974
Genre Funk/Soul
Length 40:30
Label Epic
PE 32930
Producer(s) Sly Stone
Professional reviews
Sly & the Family Stone chronology
Fresh
(1973)		 Small Talk
(1974)		 High on You
(Sly Stone)
(1975)


Small Talk was the seventh album by Sly & the Family Stone, released by Epic/CBS Records in 1974. This album was the final LP to feature the original Family Stone, which broke up in January 1975. Small Talk's singles were "Time For Livin'" (the band's final Top 40 hit) and "Loose Booty", an up-tempo funk track which uses the names of Bible characters Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego as a chant. The track was sampled extensively by the Beastie Boys on their album Paul's Boutique as the backing track for the song Shadrach.

Pictured on the album cover with Sly are his wife Kathleen Silva and his son Sylvester, Jr. Stone and Silva would divorce within months of this album's release, after being wed at a June 5, 1974 Sly & the Family Stone concert at Madison Square Garden.

Besides its standard stereo release, Small Talk was also released in quadraphonic sound.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Sylvester Stewart, and produced and arranged by Sly Stone for Fresh Productions.

[edit] Side one

  1. "Small Talk" – 3:22
  2. "Say You Will" – 3:19
  3. "Mother Beautiful" – 2:01
  4. "Time For Livin'" – 3:17
  5. "Can't Strain My Brain" – 4:09

[edit] Side two

  1. "Loose Booty" – 3:47
  2. "Holdin' On" – 3:39
  3. "Wishful Thinkin'" – 4:26
  4. "Better Thee Than Me" – 3:35
  5. "Livin' While I'm Livin'" – 2:58
  6. "This is Love" – 2:54

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Sample

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../s/m/a/Small_Talk_%28album%29_2eae.html"