![]() ![]() Whether you say, “Yes, ma’am,” or “Yes, sir,” I’m all right. I was arrested, wet up with the hoses, all that stuff. And back in that time of the civil rights movement, I still didn’t have any problem. ![]() I have never been a case of being in the closet. But today, I’m so all right with me it doesn’t even cross my mind. I didn’t get to the place of where I’m so all right with this until later in life-at a young age I would’ve had a sex change. I pretty much today live as a gay man that lives just like a woman, because I see from Day One, from that day to this day, I’ve always felt like a woman born in a man’s body. When I was growing up, I knew that something about me was different. To make a secure credit or debit card payment, select the company from which you received an invoice below.I was born in Childersburg, Alabama. If your organization would like to receive notification of job vacancies with our stations, please notify us by email at We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are looking for organizations that regularly distribute information about employment opportunities to job applicants or have job applicants to refer. A disclosure requirement applies to programming provided by foreign government entities or their agents as well as to anyone involved in the preparation, production, funding, or distribution of such programming. The Federal Communications Commission's Foreign Sponsorship Disclosure Rule requires radio stations to ensure that the public is made aware of any programming provided, funded, or distributed by governments of foreign countries, foreign political parties, agents of foreign principals, and United States-based foreign media outlets. We do not discriminate in advertising contracts on the basis of race or ethnicity and will not accept any advertising which is intended to discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity. Member Alexander City Chamber of Commerce, Auburn Chamber of Commerce, Coosa County Chamber of Commerce, Greater Coosa Valley Chamber of Commerce, Greater Talladega and Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce, Lake Martin-Dadeville Chamber of Commerce, Opelika Chamber of Commerce, Pell City Chamber of Commerce, Sylacauga Chamber of Commerce, Alabama Broadcasters Association, and National Association of Broadcasters. Home of Alabama’s Radio Station of the Year in 20, and winner of 36 ABBY Awards for broadcast excellence. Wings 94.3, NewsTalk WANI, ESPN 106.7, 96.3 WLEE, and East Alabama Living are owned by Auburn Network Inc. Home of Alabama’s 2017 Radio Station of the Year, Alabama’s Best Morning Show for 20, Alabama's Best Personality for 2020, and the Alabama Broadcasters Association’s 2014 Broadcaster of the Year. WSGN, MIX 106.5, KiX 100.3, KiX 96.3, 105.1 WRFS, AU100, Tiger Country 104.5, and are owned by Marble City Media LLC. During their heyday in the late 1960s and early ’70s, the band released three chart-topping singles - “Everyday People,” “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” and “Family Affair” - and scored such other major hits as “Hot Fun in the Summertime” and “Dance to the Music.” They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.Ĭopyright © 2022, ABC Audio. rock band to boast a racially integrated lineup featuring men and women. Sly & the Family Stone was the first major U.S. ![]() To order Sly & the Family Stone: An Oral History, visit. Banks also put the author in touch with many other figures close to Sly who were interviewed for the book. The book documents the band’s rise to stardom and Sly’s descent into drug abuse and paranoia after the band relocated to Southern California in 1970.Ī key figure in helping Selvin put the book together was Hamp “Bubba” Banks, Sly’s good friend and a part of Stone’s inner circle, who shared many of his firsthand experiences with the volatile musician. Selvin also interviewed a variety of other musicians and figures associated with Sly & the Family Stone, including Jefferson Airplane‘s Grace Slick, soul great Bobby Womack, Beau Brummels frontman Sal Valentino, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and legendary music mogul Clive Davis. Sly & the Family Stone: An Oral History was written by veteran music critic and author Joel Selvin, who conducted dozens of interviews with all of the influential Bay Area rock-and-soul band’s members, except the group’s eccentric and reclusive frontman, Sylvester Stewart, a.k.a. An updated edition of the long-out-of-print 1998 Sly & the Family Stone biography is scheduled to be published on Tuesday, October 11. ![]()
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