In the early 1970s Gil Scott-Heron's tough-talking jazz-rock came across like a slap in the face, fiercely filling the Establishment in on issues ranging from substance abuse to the poverty and desperation raging through the black community. Winter in America was his breakthrough, with pianist Brian Jackson's dense arrangements matching the words blow for blow on the uncompromising title track (actually a bonus cut), the stinging "H20gate Blues," and the grooving anti-alcohol warning of "The Bottle"--"Don't you think it's a crime," Scott-Heron riffs, "the way time after time, people hit the bottle?" Some of Jackson's music may now sound a bit dated, but the years have done little to dull what writer Nathan George called Scott-Heron's "uncomfortable truths." 

CONDITION: Used like new. NM+ Punched upc. Poster Booklet.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Peace Go With You, Brother (As-Salaam-Alaikum)
  2. Rivers of My Fathers
  3. A Very Precious Time
  4. Back Home
  5. The Bottle
  6. Song for Bobby Smith
  7. Your Daddy Loves You
  8. H2O Gate Blues
  9. Peace Go With You, Brother (As-Salaam-Alaikum)
  10. Winter in America -BONUS TRACK
  11. Song for Bobby Smith-BONUS TRACK 
  12. Your Daddy Loves You- BONUS TRACK
  13. The Bottle/Guan Guanco- BONUS TRACK
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