Browse by Artist: SCOTT-HERON, GIL

Artist:	SCOTT-HERON, GIL
Title:	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Label:	BMG
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	DRL 11798HLP

Gatefold 180 gram vinyl collection of previously-released songs highlighting Gil Scott-Heron's career. Includes the title track, "Sex Education: Ghetto Style," "The Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues," "No Knock," "Lady Day And John Coltrane," "Pieces Of A Man," "Home Is Where The Hatred Is," "Brother," "Save The Children," "Whitey On The Moon" and "Did you Hear What They Said?". Featuring Hubert Laws, Pretty Purdie, Brian Jackson, Ron Carter, Burt Jones, David Spinozza, Eddie Knowles, Charlie Saunders and Gerry Jemott.

Artist:	SCOTT-HERON, GIL
Title:	Pieces Of A Man
Label:	FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FD 10143HLP

Gatefold exact repro reissue on 180 gram vinyl of Scott-Heron's definitive album, originally released in 1971. "Pieces of a Man is an album of fine songs. Because most of the accompaniment by an excellent assemblage of musicians here calling themselves Pretty Purdie and the Playboys: (Purdie on drums; Ron Carter, an astounding bass man; Burt Jones, guitar, Hubert Laws, flute and sax, and Brian Jackson, Scott-Heron's collaborator, on piano) is in a jazz style, the songs have a loose, unanchored quality that sets them apart from both R&B and rock work. Scott-Heron sings straight-out, with an ache in his voice that conveys pain, bitterness and tenderness with equal grace and, in most cases, subtlety. Frequently the nature of the jazz backing is so free that the vocals take on an independent, almost a cappella feeling which Scott-Heron carries off surprisingly well. But what is most surprising about the album, especially after an exposure to the awkwardly fashionable poses of his poetry, is Scott-Heron's assurance and directness as a songwriter. There are occasional lines that seem to have slipped out of youthful poetry into mature songs ('Why should I subscribe to this world's madness?') and the long final cut, 'The Prisoner,' tends to get bogged down in its own 'heaviness.' But generally the material is tough and real, 'relevant' while avoiding, on the one hand, empty cliche and, on the other, fierce rhetoric, its own kind of cliché. -- Rolling Stone

Artist:	SCOTT-HERON, GIL
Title:	Free Will
Label:	FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FD 10153HLP

Gatefold exact repro reissue on 180 gram vinyl, originally released in 1972. "Gil Scott-Heron's third album is split down the middle, the first side being a purely musical experience with a full band (including flutist Hubert Laws and drummer Pretty Purdie), the second functioning more as a live rap session with collaborator Brian Jackson on flute and a few friends on percussion. For side one, although he's overly tentative on the ballad 'The Middle of Your Day,' Scott-Heron excels on the title track and the third song, 'The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues,' one of his best, best-known performances. The second side is more of an impromptu performance, with Scott-Heron often explaining his tracks by way of introduction ('No Knock' referred to a new police policy whereby knocking was no longer required before entering a house, 'And Then He Wrote Meditations' being Scott-Heron's tribute to John Coltrane). His first exploration of pure music-making, Free Will functions as one of Scott-Heron's most visceral performance, displaying a maturing artist who still draws on the raw feeling of his youth." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	SCOTT-HERON, GIL
Title:	Small Talk At 125th And Lenox
Label:	FLYING DUTCHMAN
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	FDS 131HLP

Gatefold exact repro reissue on 180 gram vinyl of Scott-Herron's debut album, originally released in 1970. "Disregard the understated title; Small Talk at 125th and Lenox was a volcanic upheaval of intellectualism and social critique, recorded live in a New York nightclub with only bongos and conga to back the street poet. Here Scott-Heron introduced some of his most biting material, including the landmark 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' as well as his single most polemical moment: the angry race warning 'Enough.' Still, he balances the tone and mood well, ranging from direct broadsides to clever satire. He introduces 'Whitey on the Moon' with a bemused air ('wanting to give credit where credit is due'), then launches into a diatribe concerning living conditions for the neglected on earth while those racing to the moon receive millions of taxpayer dollars." -- All Music Guide

Artist:	SCOTT-HERON, GIL
Title:	Angel Dust (Live)
Label:	SLOW TO SPEAK
Format:	12"
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SES 1979EP

"Gil Scott-Heron: the voice of inner city malaise; the champion of transparent honesty in musical expression; the man who lived the dark, wretched existence of addiction and 'Inner City Blues' he so eloquently described in his music. Refusing to divorce his music from the objective realities surrounding him, he tackled the most wretchedly unspeakable aspects of human suffering without a moment of flickering doubt or hesitation, dissecting and decimating systematically the pseudo-academic justification for Black America's continued wallowing in the depths of poverty, crime and disenfranchisement. Scott-Heron lived the darkness: always on the verge of death, one foot in the coffin, one firmly planted on the cracked concrete of inner city America, he managed to stand firm against the tide unaware and unconscious thought typical of the mindless rabble in favor of a markedly witty and free-spirited, joyous assault on the dominant social relations of 1970s America, all the while battling a stupendous heroin addiction. Indeed, Scott-Heron knew that of which he chronicled in his songs, ascribing words to previously inexplicable miseries plaguing the downtrodden masses of the world. This newest 12" from Slow To Speak's Francis Englehardt and Paul Nickerson features three of his dopest and most powerful songs, including two live takes -- 'Angel Dust' and 'The Bottle' -- in addition to the breathtaking 'We Almost Lost Detroit.' Highly limited, highly recommended."

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