(Strata East) 1974 Gil Scott-Heron is the quintessential voice of the Black American everyman. While that could be a loaded statement to make with no real mandate to reinforce it, please be so kind as to take a walk through Winter In America, the seminal body of work that both defined and exalted him. A poet battle tested amongst freedom fighters, black radicals, flower children, beat poets, whinos and the wounded; Gil Scott-Heron can be found standing in the line of fire as often as he reports from behind the lines. The breadth of his commentary is at once personal and politically pointed. Heron’s words are complimented by the production of pianist and flautist, Brian Jackson, who began working with him during college at Lincoln University (Pennsylvania).

Jackson’s compositions concentrate Heron’s emotions into heat seeking shots to the heart of the collective conscious. The Rhodes heavy production on Winter In America stands alongside the works of Roy Ayers and other soul jazz innovators informing the sonic aesthetic of the neo-soul movement during the late 1990’s. What Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson achieved with Winter In America was a deftly scored illustration of the streets with the understanding that they were the proprietors of a national platform with the potential to amplify the voiceless as effectively as the evening news projected world leaders. This was recording as a conduit for change without the flourishes of major soul music or the hymns of longhaired rebellion coming from American folk rock. Released in 1974 on Strata-East months before the resignation of President Nixon, Winter In America discusses the consequences of America’s penchant for conspiracy on “H20Gate Blues”.

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Heron makes liberal use of the right to free speech as he recites the names of controversial politicians and quips, “An almost endless list that won’t be missed when at last, America is purged.” He romanticizes the warmth of his southern roots in an upbeat lamentation about life as a byproduct of The Great Migration, on “Back Home”. “Rivers of My Fathers” is a rhythmic exercise in navigating hopelessness; the proposed salve is “miles from everything”.

It is a direct forebear of the conversational singing style etched into modern consciousness by Mos Def, most memorably on “Umi Says”, a track co-authored by Weldon Irvine and canonized as a reiteration of the 1970’s rallying cry, “Power to the people!” It is a song, like “Peace Go With You Brother”, that is heartbreaking in lyrical sentiment; Heron’s being that he is not only your pusher man, but your padre, fellow junkie, amigo, and pallbearer. This is the iconic “I Am A Man” sign from the 1968 Sanitation Worker’s strike in song form. Heron’s genuine resignation is an offering of peace to those who have not seen fit to acknowledge his existence. He is the town crier hollering like a wounded blues man from the tops of high rise tenements about everything from the cloying taste of hunger to political dossiers, and the bacchanalia of soul brothers greeting and grunting under street lamps as they swallow their dreams and day jobs with equal force from the mouths of green glass bottles in brown paper bags. Shins chutes too narrow rar. The album resounds loudly because it is an expressive and honest portrayal of the people in the hollows of the U.S. Where popular opinion polls do not necessarily visit and food is as scarce as wealth.

Heron and Jackson have taken aim at big government and declined to wear bulletproof vests. As a complete body of work, the composition remains relevant precisely because, as the title track notes, it is still winter in America. The universality of the message is reinforced by Heron’s duality as someone who has lived as both an exception to the rule and a statistic; the conundrum of life that plagues anyone who has ever cut their teeth in an American ghetto, all set to beautiful music.

Words by Karas Lamb.

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(Strata East) 1974 Gil Scott-Heron is the quintessential voice of the Black American everyman. While that could be a loaded statement to make with no real mandate to reinforce it, please be so kind as to take a walk through Winter In America, the seminal body of work that both defined and exalted him. A poet battle tested amongst freedom fighters, black radicals, flower children, beat poets, whinos and the wounded; Gil Scott-Heron can be found standing in the line of fire as often as he reports from behind the lines. The breadth of his commentary is at once personal and politically pointed. Heron’s words are complimented by the production of pianist and flautist, Brian Jackson, who began working with him during college at Lincoln University (Pennsylvania). Jackson’s compositions concentrate Heron’s emotions into heat seeking shots to the heart of the collective conscious. The Rhodes heavy production on Winter In America stands alongside the works of Roy Ayers and other soul jazz innovators informing the sonic aesthetic of the neo-soul movement during the late 1990’s.