Description
A reissue of Gil Scott-Heron’s 1972 album taken from the original master tapes and featuring three songs (two previously unreleased) by Gil’s college group Black and Blues. The booklet features an in-depth song analysis. The album features many of Gil’s most important early songs including ‘Home Is Where The Hatred Is’, ‘Lady Day & John Coltrane’ and ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’. Backed by some of New York’s finest session musicians including Bernard Purdie, Hubert Laws and Ron Carter, it is one of the great albums of black American music.
Tracklist:
Side A:
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Save the Children
Lady Day and John Coltrane
Home Is Where the Hatred Is
When You Are Who You Are
I Think I’ll Call It Morning
Side B:
Pieces of a Man
A Sign of the Ages
Or Down You Fall
The Needle’s Eye
The Prisoner
