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GIL SCOTT-HERON
FREE WILL (AAA REMASTERED VINYL EDITION)
VINYL LP
Item no. :XXQLP126 Barcode :0029667020510 Artist :GIL SCOTT-HERON Product type :Vinyl LP Label :BIG BEAT Release Date :26 January 2024
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Released in 1971, Gil Scott-Heron’s second album “Pieces Of A Man” is a stone-cold classic and rightly seen as one of the greatest albums of all time.
There is a reason why a full album of songs did not appear as a follow-up. Both producer Bob Thiele and Scott-Heron’s writing partner Brian Jackson had been keen to move forward quickly with song-based material, but Scott-Heron saw himself first and foremost as a writer. A new novel, The Nigger Factory, would be published in 1972 and he also enrolled for writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Once the decision was made to combine poetry and song, sessions were booked for the 2nd and 3rd March 1972. The first session with Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie (drums), Hubert Laws (flute/piccolo), David Spinozza (guitar), Jerry Jemmott (bass) and Brian Jackson (electric and acoustic piano) recorded the songs with Horace Ott taking care of the arrangements. The second session was dedicated to poetry, recorded with Scott-Heron, Jackson, Eddie Knowles and Charlie Sanders from their college group Black & Blues. “Free Will” was released in 1972.
SIDE ONE
1. FREE WILL
2. THE MIDDLE OF YOUR DAY
3. THE GET OUT OF THE GHETTO BLUES
4. SPEED KILLS
5. DO YOU HEAR WHAT THEY SAID?
SIDE TWO
1. THE KING ALFRED PLAN
2. NO KNOCK
3. WIGGY
4. AIN’T NO NEW THING
5. WHAT WOULD BECOME OF ME
6. BILLY GREEN IS DEAD
7. SEX EDUCATION: GHETTO STYLE
8. … and then he wrote MEDITATIONS
