Sly Stone: Small Talk (Epic)
Tom Nolan, Phonograph Record, August 1974
THIS RECORD IS more to be appreciated in the mind than enjoyed by the ears at least when this particular mind and set of ears are employed. I have been having a schizophrenic dialogue with myself about Small Talk. Here's how it goes:
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