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Certain Songs #2263: Sly & The Family Stone – “Spaced Cowboy”

January 11, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: There’s A Riot Goin’ On
Year: 1971

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You know how, with big budget films, there’s always some critic that says, “sure it cost a lot, but it’s all up there on the screen.” Well, it’s kinda like that with Sly & The Family Stone’s 1971 classic, There’s A Riot Goin’ On, only instead of money, it’s drugs. And nowhere are the drugs more prevalent that the glorified second side jam, “Spaced Cowboy,” which serves much the same purpose on There’s A Riot Goin’ On as “I Just Want to See His Face” does on Exile on Main Street.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Sly & The Family Stone, Spaced Cowboy, There's A Riot Goin' On

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