Winter in America

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Gil Scott-Heron

Brian Jackson

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1001 Albums you must hear before you die (384 items)
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Description: 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 bot ... (more)

Manufacturer: Tvt
Release date: 7 April 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0016581432024 UPC: 016581432024

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