GIL SCOTT HERON - FREE WILL

1 Free Will

2 The Middle of the Day

3 The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues

4 Speed Kills

5 Did You Hear What They Said?

6 The King Alfred Plan

7 No Knock

8 Wiggy

9 Ain't No New Thing

10 Billy Green Is Dead

11 Sex Education: Ghetto Style

12 And Then He Wrote Meditations

Limited vinyl LP reissue of Gil Scott-Heron's 1972 album. The album is special as one side consists of songs - all but one written with Brian Jackson - and the flipside is of poetry. Both forms showcase the political and the personal, in a way where even the time-specific lyrics transcend their era. Gil and Brian are backed an all-star band consisting of Bernard Purdie, Gerry Jemmott, Hubert Laws and David Spinozza. These help bring out the pathos in the achingly sad 'Did You Hear What They Say' - one of Gil's finest pieces of writing.