*For more than 50 years, bass player Rustee Allen has been “all funked up,” playing and recording with some of the most legendary singers and bands in the world of rock, soul, R&B, fusion, and gospel ...

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Rustee Allen’s personal parable still perplexes him. “It’s all just been so wonderful,” said Allen, who played bass for 18 years with Sly & the Family Stone and Bobby Womack. “It seems like my life ...

Rustee Allen (born March 3, 1951) is an American musician best known as the bass guitar player for the influential funk band Sly and the Family Stone from 1972 to 1975. Allen replaced founding Family ...

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