Midnight Band: First Minute of a New Day (180 Gram Vinyl) [Vinyl]

If you're considering digging into the stack of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson reissues, this is the place to start. First Minute is one fantastic, seminal album--just bursting with Jackson's serious piano, Bilal Sunni Ali's deluxe woodwinds, and Barnett Williams and Charlie Saunders's relentless percussion. The entire Midnight Band, in fact, positively struts, cajoles, and freaks the funk out all over this 1975 powerhouse. Scott-Heron himself raps ("Pardon Our Analysis"), rocks ("The Liberation Song"), and rolls ("Alluswe") in that magic voice that critic Neil Tesser once described as "mahogany, sunshine, and tears." First Minute also boasts the Scott-Heron classics "Ain't No Such Thing As Superman" and "Winter in America."
Track Listings
1 Offering
2 The Liberation Song (Red, Black And Green)
3 Must Be Something
4 Ain't No Such Thing As Superman
5 Pardon Our Analysis (We Beg Your Pardon)
6 Guerilla
7 Winter In America
8 Western Sunrise
9 Alluswe
10 A Talk: Bluesology/Black History/Jaws/The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Live From Wax Museum...

• Released: 06/19/2012
• Format: Vinyl