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Bridges (Gil Scott Heron album)

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Released
  
September 1977

Bridges (1977)
  
Secrets (1978)

Label
  
Arista Records

Recorded
  
1977

Release date
  
September 1977

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Producer
  
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson Co-producer Larry Fallon, Tom Wilson

Artists
  
Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson

Genres
  
Jazz, Soul music, Jazz-funk, Funk, Spoken word

Similar
  
Brian Jackson albums, Jazz-funk albums, Other albums

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Bridges is an album by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, released in the fall of 1977 on Arista Records.

Contents

"We Almost Lost Detroit"

The song "We Almost Lost Detroit", which shares its title with the 1975 John G. Fuller book of the same name, recounts the story of the nuclear meltdown at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Monroe, MI, in 1966. It was performed at the No Nukes concert in September 1979 at Madison Square Garden. This song was also contributed to the No Nukes album in November 1979 and No Nukes concert film in May 1980.

Track listing

All tracks written by Gil Scott-Heron except as noted.

Personnel

  • Gil Scott-Heron - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Piano
  • Brian Jackson - Flute, Keyboards, T.O.N.T.O.
  • Danny Bowens - Bass
  • Joe Blocker, Reggie Brubane - Drums
  • Fred Payne, Marlo Henderson - Guitar
  • Tony Duncanson, Barnett Williams - Percussion
  • Bilal Sunni Ali - Saxophone
  • Delbert Tailor - Trumpet
  • Legacy

  • The song "We Almost Lost Detroit" is sampled by:
  • "Brown Skin Lady"" by Black Star on their Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star album
  • "The People"" by Common on his Finding Forever album
  • The song "We Almost Lost Detroit" is covered by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. on their album It's a Corporate World (2011).
  • Songs

    1Hello Sunday Hello Road3:38
    2Song of the Wind3:59
    3Racetrack in France4:16

    References

    Bridges (Gil Scott-Heron album) Wikipedia