Title: Small Talk at 125th & Lenox Artist: Gil Scott-Heron Label: BGP Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 029667529020 Genre: Soul/R & B Release Date: 2015-05-05 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT
Digitally remastered edition of this 1971 album. Small Talk At 125th & Lenox was the start of Gil Scott-Heron's distinguished 40-year recording career but this album is his simplest and most hard-hitting. For the most part it features him with three percussionists performing his poetry. The rhythmic backdrop and the style of the delivery makes it more than a spoken word album. It is a classic that stands head and shoulders above similar albums of the same date. It laid the basis for Scott-Heron's emergence as one of the leading figures of the black radical movement. Here is the original of 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' a FM radio hit which prompted the recording of the full band version better known today. The album also includes the renowned 'Whitey On The Moon' and the much-sampled 'Brother'.
Tracks: 1.1 Introduction/ the Revolution Will Not Be Televised 1.2 Omen 1.3 Brother 1.4 Comment #1 1.5 Small Talk at 125th ; Lenox 1.6 The Subject Was Faggots 1.7 Evolution (And Flashback) 1.8 Plastic Pattern People 1.9 Whitey on the Moon 1.10 The Vulture 1.11 Enough 1.12 Paint It Black 1.13 Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul 1.14 Everyday
