Album: Maggot Brain
Year: 1971
An improbable mix of gospel, soul and folk-rock, and featuring a vocal round-robin that both Sly Stone and Kanye West spent their entire careers trying to recreate in ways both natural and artificial, “Can You Get To That” is a departure from the normal Funkadelic sound that stands as one of the greatest songs of the 1970s.
I first heard it in the mid-1980s on a Funkadelic compilation called Best of The Early Years, Vol 1 that I snagged from the Music Library at Fresno State.
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