The glossy silver foil finish inside and outside the covers of The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967 to some degree belies the sound quality of the music inside. But the assiduous effort ...

Crowds gather (left) for the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Guitarist Freddie Stone (right) performs with Sly & the Family Stone at the upstate Woodstock. CBS via Getty Images; Alamy When Freddie ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – In August of 1969, Michael Carabello and Freddie Stone were hanging around together with some pals – Carlos Santana, Freddie’s brother Sly and a few more musicians of the era. They’d ...