Legend In His Own Mind (2 Vinyles LP) / Gil Scott-Heron & His Amnesia Express

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Side A:
We Almost Lost Detroit - Angola, Louisiana - Three Miles Down
Side B: B-Movie - A Legend In His Own Mind
Side C: Winter In America - Shut 'Em Down - Washington D.C.
Side D: The Bottle - Johannesburg
Live in Bremen, 1983
In the early 1970s, critics called Gil Scott-Heron the most important Black voice since Martin Luther King Jr. and described him as a Black Bob Dylan. "His poetry is very muscular, his humor is close to the surface, he speaks in the street, most of the time with justified and precise anger," wrote the New York Times in 1975, marveling at the angry man from the Bronx.
It's no wonder that decades later, Scott-Heron was celebrated as the "Godfather of Rap." Born in Chicago, the musician, poet, and pugnacious human rights activist himself lived for years in the Bronx. Returning to his Black roots, he died on May 27, 2011, in the urban neighborhood of Harlem in New York.
His legacy includes a fantastic concert that Gil Scott-Heron gave with his band at the Schauburg Theater in Bremen, Germany, on April 18, 1983. Technicians from Radio Bremen were on site and recorded this ecstatic show.
Rumal Rackley, Gil's son, on the release of this concert: "This album from a 1983 concert captures the spirit that permeated all of Gil Scott-Heron's performances during his travels in the USA and abroad. From Europe to Asia, from Australia to Africa, his work resonates at the heart and soul level."