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San Pablo Relay

Sly Stoney
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Sly Stoney
R&B / Soul2:40April 29, 2026
0:00 2:40

Influenced by Sly & the Family Stone, Funkadelic, War, The Isley Brothers, Shuggie Otis. Sly Stoney was named after a funk legend by his parents, a fact that has haunted him ever since. After dropping out of an Urban Planning program at UC Davis, he moved back to his native West Oakland with a mountain of student debt, a 1972 fuzz bass, and an oversized houseplant named Larry. His music is the sound of that decision: paranoid, joyful, deeply funky, and wrestling with the feeling of being the only one in his family who chose art over a career path. These are anthems for the gloriously uncertain.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The pen's chained to the counter again at San Pablo Social.
The fluorescent hums a nervous B-flat, kinda soulful.
My number's C-one-fifty-eight, it's barely 10 AM.
The vinyl on this chair is sweating through my thin-soled Vans.

[Chorus]
We pass the signal down the line.
A tired kindness, double-time.
Just a low-watt flicker in the eye.

[Verse 2]
A woman reads a manual for a vacuum she don't own yet.
Smell of floor wax, instant coffee, and a quiet sort of threat.
The clerk behind the plexiglass, a tired, muffled sound:
"Number one-oh-four, your paperwork ain't been found."

[Chorus]
We pass the signal down the line.
A tired kindness, double-time.
Just a low-watt flicker in the eye.

[Bridge]
Is this the circuit they designed?
A slow connection, misaligned.
Or are we just a human antenna, picking up the grind?

[Outro]
The pen's chained to the counter again.

About Sly Stoney

Sly Stoney was named after a funk legend by his parents, a fact that has haunted him ever since. After dropping out of an Urban Planning program at UC Davis, he moved back to his native West Oakland with a mountain of student debt, a 1972 fuzz bass, and an oversized houseplant named Larry. His music is the sound of that decision: paranoid, joyful, deeply funky, and wrestling with the feeling of…

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