Gil Scott-Heron Documentary Who Is Gil Scott-Heron?, Album Nothing New Out Digitally
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On last year’s Record Store Day, XL released Nothing New, a series of Gil Scott-Heron songs recorded with Richard Russell in the late 2000s. To mark what would’ve been the man’s 66th birthday, the compilation has been released on iTunes. It comes with a huge bonus, too: A documentary called Who Is Gil Scott-Heron?.
The film was directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the filmmakers behind the Nick Cave film 20,000 Days on Earth. A 10-minute excerpt is available to watch here. Screenings will take place soon.
Listen to the Nothing New track “Pieces of a Man” below.
Read our Afterword on Gil Scott-Heron here and an oral history here.
Nothing New:
01 Did You Hear What They Said
02 Better Days Ahead
03 Household Name (Interlude)
04 Your Daddy Loves You
05 Changing Yourself (Interlude)
06 Pieces of a Man
07 Enjoying Yourself (Outro)
08 Alien (Hold On To Your Dreams)
09 Before I Hit the Bottom (Interlude)
10 95 South (All the Places We’ve Been)
11 The Other Side
12 The On/Off Switch (Interlude)
13 Blue Collar
14 On Bobby Blue Bland (Outro)
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