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Gil Scott-Heron’s literary side was nurtured by his grandmother who introduced him to the poems and stories of Langston Hughes when he was a young boy. He was raised by her in Jackson, Tenn. where he read Hughes’ texts in the Chicago Defender, a black newspaper the old lady had delivered weekly. It was there that he and Jackson, along with Danny Bowens on bass and Bob Adams on drums, made Winter in America, an album many consider their undisputed masterpiece, a synthesis of his parallel artistic mediums. In that age of politically charged concept albums, most notably Marvin Gaye’s superb What’s Going On, Gil’s inspired lyrical goal with this new album was to create an audio novel that told the story of a junkie veteran from Vietnam hanging on the corner of Any Ghetto, . and studying the world through his stoned perceptive.

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Gil Scott-Heron turned out during the '70s what may be the best body of overlooked work of the era. "Winter in America" followed the excellent "Pieces of a Man" and at least equaled the quality of that album. Winter in America" kicks off with what was to become one of Gil's best-known and most often played tunes, "The Bottle. The tune exemplifies the power of his work. He captures life in vivid, poetic images, and he joins the lyrics to street rhythms, in this case, Latin flavored.

Free Will is the second studio album by American recording artist Gil Scott-Heron, released in August 1972 on Flying Dutchman Records. Recordings sessions for the album took place on March 2 and 3, 1972 at RCA Studios in New York City, and production was handled by producer Bob Thiele. It is the follow-up to Scott-Heron's critically acclaimed studio debut, Pieces of a Man (1971), and it is the second album to feature him working with keyboardist Brian Jackson.

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Gilbert Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011) was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues, and soul, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron.

Give another good example. You see that gent in a wrinkled suit, now He done damn near blown his cool To the bottle. He was a Doctor helping young girls along If they wasn't too far gone to have Problems, but the Defenders of the dollar eagle Said, What you’re doing, man, ain’t legal Now he's in the bottle And now we watch him every day He’s trying to chase the pigeons away From the bottle