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Winter in America

Brian Jackson Gil Scott-Heron Format: Audio CD

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Format: Music CD, Rumal-Gia Records. Jazz music CD release from Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson with the album Winter In America. Released on the label Rumal-Gia Records. Jazz music CD. This hard to find pre-owned music CD is fully guaranteed.

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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." --Michael Ruby

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Peace Go With You, Brother

2. Rivers Of My Fathers

3. A Very Presious Time

4. Back Home

5. The Bottle

6. Song For Bobby Smith

7. Your Daddy Loves You

8. H20gate Blues

9. Pease Go With You, Brother

10. Winter In America

11. Song For Bobby Smith

12. Your Daddy Loves You

13. The Bottle/Guan Guanco

Product details

Audio CD (April 7, 1998)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Tvt
ASIN: B000005ZCX
Average Customer Review: 54 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,579 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #176 in CDs & Vinyl > Rap & Hip-Hop > Old School
- #300 in CDs & Vinyl > Indie Music > Rap & Hip-Hop > General
- #421 in CDs & Vinyl > Indie Music > Jazz > Vocal Jazz

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AMAZING!

ByKenya Brownon September 12, 2016

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

I LOVE Gil Scott Heron! I simply could not live without this CD!

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Poetry, politics and power

ByTyler Smithon August 12, 2001

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Gil Scott-Heron turned out during the '70s what may be the best body of overlooked work of the era. "Winter in America" followed the excellent "Pieces of a Man" and at least equaled the quality of that album.
"Winter in America" kicks off with what was to become one of Gil's best-known and most often played tunes, "The Bottle." The tune exemplifies the power of his work. He captures life in vivid, poetic images, and he joins the lyrics to street rhythms, in this case, Latin flavored. His often overlooked partner, Brian Jackson, contributes a fine, jazz flute solo.
There are, of course, politics aplenty in "Winter." The title tune itself is a dirge, a prediction of America's failure, which hasn't occurred, of course, if you take Gil literally. His goal -- and Brian's -- was never to predict a Marxist revolution, but to point out the inherent contradictions in a society that celebrates wealth at the same time that it turns a blind eye to the dispossessed and forgotten. And "H2OGate Blues" is one of the best commentaries on the disastrous second term of Tricky Dick Nixon that I've ever heard.
Lest one think that "Winter in America" is a purely political album, however, one should remember that Gil was also capable of penning and singing unabashedly romantic tunes like "A Very Precious Time." If there is any male who remembers anything at all about being 19 years old in the 1970s and can resist lyrics like "Was there a touch of spring?/And did she have a pink dress on?/And when she smiled her shyest smile/Couldn't you almost touch the warmth?" -- well, I guess we need to check that guy's pulse.
Great album -- toughness and tenderness from one of our best-kept secrets.

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Five Stars

ByAmazon Customeron August 7, 2017

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

Gil Scott Heron's music is relevant to today's world!

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Loved It

ByReadaloton March 25, 2017

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

amazing album ... product was delivered promptly.

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awesome

ByPeacoat Rideron July 6, 2015

Format: VinylVerified Purchase

What can I say? Present for my brother and he loved it. One problem our vinyl player did not function and we needed to purchase a new one to enjoy it. Grandfather of hip hop yet he disowns his children....if you know the lyric you know Gils music.

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Gil Scott-Heron

ByG-Manon June 22, 2016

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Great throwback album. Still relevent to today.

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Five Stars

ByMotisolaon July 24, 2016

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Thank you!