I just picked up the Precious Stone (1963-1965) and Listen to the Voices (1965-1970) compilations. I mistakenly thought that these two albums featured all of Sly's stray songs and productions outside of the regular albums but after reading the liner notes I discovered that there are even more tracks out there. Is there a third collection that features songs not on the other two or are the rest of those recordings scattered accross several different compilations? I am interested in getting as much of these "rare" tracks as possible, is there another disc that I should pick up?

Those two are great compilations, esp for the folks who were waiting to hear the Little Sister & 6ix songs in pristine quality.

This is not a compilation of the people he worked with though, this documents his underrated late 70s/early 80s stay with Warner Bros.....

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People have mixed feelings about his WB era, but I love that period.

In case you haven't heard, there is a new release called Family and Friends. It was released yesterday and if you haven't heard , it is worth a listen.

Can anyone tell me the difference between these two albums?

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They both appear to have very similar tracklists and there is a great deal of overlap with the Precious Stone and Listen to the Voices compilations but there are some tracks not on those albums.

Seventh Son has more tracks on it so I am leaning towards it.

Not familiar with 7th son.

But the other one is kind of a rerun from "Precious Stone".