High on You | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Sly Stone |
Cover: | Sly-highonyou.jpg |
Recorded: | 1974–75 |
Genre: | Funk |
Length: | 34:46 |
Label: | Epic (PE 33835) |
Producer: | Sly Stone |
Chronology: | Sly and the Family Stone |
Prev Title: | Small Talk |
Prev Year: | 1974 |
Next Title: | Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm Back |
Next Year: | 1976 |
High on You is the first solo album by singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, released by Epic/CBS Records in 1975. The Family Stone broke up in January 1975 after a disastrous booking at the Radio City Music Hall. At this point, the band members parted company with Stone, except for trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, his brother guitarist Freddie Stone, and backup singers Little Sister. With subsequent recordings, Stone returned to using the name of his former band, although they were largely solo recordings.
Stone performed a large part of the instrumentation for each song on his own using multitracking (as he had been doing for Family Stone LPs since There's a Riot Goin' On in 1971). This album includes a combination of newly recorded solo material with a handful of songs recorded before the Family Stone's dissolution.
High on You's first single was the R&B number-three hit "I Get High on You". The LP's second single, "Le Lo Li", failed to chart within the R&B Top 40, as did the third, "Crossword Puzzle". All three singles missed the U.S. pop Top 40.
Besides its standard stereo release, High on You was also released in quadraphonic sound.
All songs written by Sylvester Stewart and produced by Sly Stone, unless otherwise noted.