Ghetto Style

by Gil Scott-Heron

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  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 2 November 1998
  • Label: Camden
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:09:35
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A compilation of Gil Scott-Heron's recordings, presenting the Chicago born poet and musician whose jazz funk and spoken word anticipated hip hop. The selections emphasise his seventies peak, where political poetry met soul and jazz arrangements.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, groove-laden, ballad, vocal, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (3:06)
  2. Or Down You Fall (3:13)
  3. The Needle's Eye (4:50)
  4. I Think I'll Call It Morning (3:31)
  5. When You Are Who You Are (3:23)
  6. Save The Children (4:25)
  7. Did You Hear What They Said? (3:29)
  8. Free Will (3:33)
  9. Speed Kills (3:17)
  10. Middle Of Your Day (4:30)
  11. Pieces Of A Man (4:51)
  12. A Sign Of The Ages (4:03)
  13. The Get Out Of The Ghetto Blues (5:06)
  14. Lady Day & John Coltrane (3:34)
  15. Home Is Where The Hatred Is (3:20)
  16. No Knock (1:29)
  17. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Early Version) (3:23)
  18. Sex Education: Ghetto Style (0:51)
  19. Small Talk At 125th & Lenox (1:22)
  20. King Alfred Plan (2:49)
  21. Billy Green Is Dead (1:30)

Credits

  • Gil Scott-Heron - primary artist, written-by, voice, vocals
  • Brian Jackson - piano, written-by

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