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The title of their best-known song is right on the money: Sister Sledge are family. Four sisters, to be exact: Debbie, Kim, Joni, and Kathy Sledge. But there's a lot more to this sister act than one disco anthem; the Sledges' musical career spans over three decades and a dozen albums… Producers Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, who'd already hit paydirt with their own band Chic on such club classics as "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" and "Le Freak," took the Sledges on, and the result was their commercial high-water mark, 1979's We Are Family. Perfectly in tune with the spirit of the disco era, that album's evergreen title track has gone on to enliven countless weddings and other family gatherings in the past 20-plus years… The nine tracks on this disc, drawn from a 1991 live concert and including every song from We Are Family, are further proof of the lasting quality, and danceability, of Sister Sledge's work. — Mac Randall