Artist > Gil Scott-Heron

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GIL SCOTT-HERON/VOCALS BRIAN JACKSON/VOCALS, ELECTRIC & ACOUSTIC PIANO PRETTY PURDIE/DRUMS HUBERT LAWS*/FLUTE & PICCOLO GERRY JEMMOTT/BASS DAVID SPINOZZA/GUITAR HORACE OTT/ARRANGER, CONDUCTOR

1. FREE WILL (3:30)
2. THE MIDDLE OF YOUR DAY (4:30)
3. THE GET OUT OF THE GHETTO BLUES (5:04)
4. SPEED KILLS (3:15)
5. DID YOU HEAR WHAT THEY SAID? (3:28)

1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
2. Save The Children
3. Lady Day and John Coltrane
4. Home Is Where the Hatred Is
5. When You Are Who You Are
6. I Think I'll Call It Morning
7. Pieces of a Man
8. A Sign of the Ages
9. Or Down You Fall
10. The Nee

Track Listing:

1. Introduction 0:31
2. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2:46
3. Omen 1:45
4. Brother 2:35
5. Comment #1 4:26
6. Small Talk at 125th & Lenox 1:20
7. The Subject Was Faggots 3:10
8. Evolution (And Flashback) 3:20
9. Plastic Pattern People 2:50
10. Whitey On The Moon 1:57

1. Revolution Will Not Be Televised
2. Sex Education:Ghetto Style
3. Get Out of the Ghetto Blues
4. No Knock
5. Lady Day and John Coltrane
6. Pieces of a Man
7. Home Is Where the Hatred Is
8. Brother
9. Save the Children
10. Whitey on the Moon
11. Did You Hear What They Said?

With Brian Jackson

1. JOHANNESBURG - 4:47
2. A TOAST TO THE PEOPLE - 5:45
3. THE SUMMER OF '42 - 4:38
4. BEGINNINGS (THE FIRST MINUTE OF A NEW DAY) - 5:36
5. SOUTH CAROLINA (Barnwell) - 4:33
6. ESSEX - 9:19
7. FELL TOGETHER - 4:26
8. A LOVELY DAY - 3:25

With Brian Jackson

1. OFFERING (3:34)
2. THE LIBERATION SONG (Red, Black and Green) (6:18)
3. MUST BE SOMETHING (5:16)
4. AIN'T NO SUCH THING AS SUPERMAN (4:13)
5. PARDON OUR ANALYSIS (We Beg Your Pardon) (8:01)
6. GUERILLA (7:49)
7. WINTER IN AMERICA (6:09)
8. WESTERN SUN

With Brian Jackson

1. PEACE GO WITH YOU BROTHER - 5:27
2. RIVERS OF MY FATHERS - 8:19
3. A VERY PRECIOUS TIME - 5:17
4. BACK HOME - 2:51
5. THE BOTTLE - 5:14
6. SONG FOR BOBBY SMITH - 4:38
7. YOUR DADDY LOVES YOU - 3:25
8. H2OGATE BLUES - 8:08
9. PEACE GO WITH YOU BROTHER - 1:10

Just Before Sundown
It's Your World
Possum Slim
New York City
Nightfall
17th Street
Trane
Must Be Something
Late Evening
Home Is Where The Hatred Is
Bicentennial Blues
Midnight And Morning
The Bottle Sharing

Hello Sunday! Hello Road!
Song of the Wind
Racetrack In France
Vildgolia (Deaf, Dumb, and Blind)
Under The Hammer
We Almost Lost Detriot
Tuskeegee #626
Delta Man (Where I'm Comin' From)
95 South (All of the Places We've Been)

Track Listing:

1. Introduction 0:31
2. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2:46
3. Omen 1:45
3. Brother 2:35
4. Comment #1 4:26
5. Small Talk at 125th & Lenox 1:20
6. The Subject Was Faggots 3:10
7. Evolution (And Flashback) 3:20
8. Plastic Pattern People 2:50
9. Whitey On The Moon 1:57

Track Listing:

With Brian Jackson

1. OFFERING
2. THE LIBERATION SONG (Red, Black and Green)
3. MUST BE SOMETHING
4. AIN'T NO SUCH THING AS SUPERMAN
5. PARDON OUR ANALYSIS (We Beg Your Pardon)
6. GUERILLA
7. WINTER IN AMERICA
8. WESTERN SUN

Gil Scott-Heron is one of the most influential and important singer/songwriters to have come out of America in the second half of the last century. Much can be said about why Gil’s lyrics are so original and powerful, but it is important not to overlook his utterly singular voice which is so distinctive and rough and tender. It's a voice of experience and the way his voice floats over the shifting funk rhythms and the deep jazz, soul and blues melodies is nothing short of sublime. It’s also what enables him to draw you in to the difficult issues he does not shy away from dealing with. His sound is intimate and warm and direct and consequently it is hard to resist being moved and inspired by his message. Gil has been consistently relevant whether it be on a personal or political canvas.

Early on in his career he wrote and recorded the song that for many is regarded as one of the first great rap tracks,"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." From its opening lines which turn Timothy Leary on his addled head (“You will not be able to stay home brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on scag brother, because the revolution will not be televised.”), Gil threw down the gauntlet, challenging us to get involved, be informed, retain a sense of humour and do the right thing. He was angry, politically savvy, compassionate and very funny. When he was brought to Arista by Clive Davis in 1975, he was billed by the label as the black Bob Dylan, and whilst this reductive and over simplistic description is typical marketing bullshit, there is some raison d’etre for this moniker. For Gil is a protest poet of enormous subtlety who has railed against those things in the world that he believes are wrong. And like Dylan he has often used humour as a powerful weapon.

A new record from Gil Scott-Heron, 40 years after his first solo album, is a cause for major celebration and something that the world needs now more than ever.

Track Listing

1. On Coming From A Broken Home (Pt. 1)
2. Me And The Devil
3. I’m New Here
4. Your Soul And Mine
5. Parents (Interlude)
6. I’ll Take Care Of You
7. Being Blessed (Interlude)
8. Where Did The Night Go
9. I Was Guided (Interlude)
10. New York Is Killing Me
11. Certain Things (Interlude)
12. Running
13. The Crutch
14. I’ve Been Me (Interlude)
15. On Coming From A Broken Home (Pt. 2)

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