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HERON, GIL SCOTT - NOTHING NEW


TITLE:
Nothing New
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XLLP575
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Vinyl record
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Jazz Funk Soul LP inc Free DVD- "Who is Gil Scott Heron "

In 2005, having decided to approach Gil Scott-Heron to suggest that we made a record, I stopped listening to any of his previous output. This was to avoid feeling intimidated by the weight of Gil's musical history, and by the sheer quality of the 14 studio albums he'd released since 1970.

Part of my initial suggestion to Gil was that we recorded sparse, stripped down versions of his old songs. We both thought that might make an intriguing album. So we started off recording versions of some of Gil's repertoire, just voice and piano. But our album gradually evolved into something different - "I'm New Here", which as the title suggested, didn't touch on any of Gil's previous recordings (except for "Your Soul And Mine", which is a re-imagining of "The Vulture" from Gil's 1970 debut LP "Small Talk at 125th and Lennox").

I didn't pay much attention to the acoustic versions of Gil's older repertoire that we had recorded, as I was so focused on our

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a1
Did You Hear What They Said
a2
Better Days Ahead
a3
Household Name (Interlude)
a4
Your Daddy Loves You
a5
Changing Yourself (Interlude)
a6
Pieces Of A Man
a7
Enjoying Yourself (Outro)
b1
Alien (Hold Onto Your Dreams)
b2
Before I Hit The Bottom (Interlude)
b3
95 South (All Of The Places We've Been)
b4
The Other Side
b5
The On/Off Switch (Interlude)
b6
Blue Collar
b7
On Bobby Blue Bland (Outro)