Gil Scott Heron - Nothing New (2014)

 

Nothing New

Gil Scott-Heron - Did You Hear What They Said (4:06)

Gil Scott-Heron - Better Days Ahead (4:34)

Gil Scott-Heron - Household Name (Interlude) (0:12)

Gil Scott-Heron - Your Daddy Loves You (4:03)

Gil Scott-Heron - Changing Yourself (Interlude) (0:11)

Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces Of A Man (4:32)

Gil Scott-Heron - Enoying Yourself (0:19)

Gil Scott-Heron - Alien (Hold Onto Your Dreams) (3:04)

Gil Scott-Heron - Before I Hit The Bottom (0:21)

Gil Scott-Heron - 95 South (Of All The Places We've Been) (3:10)

Gil Scott-Heron - The Other Side (3:03)

Gil Scott-Heron - The On/Off Switch (Interlude) (0:26)

Gil Scott-Heron - Blue Collar (3:51)

Gil Scott-Heron - On Bobby Blue Bland (Outro) (0:29)

"Nothing New is a posthumous album of vocal & piano recordings by Gil Scott-Heron released by XL Recordings on April 19th, 2014 in conjunction with Record Store Day. The album consists of new, stripped-down versions of a selection of older Scott-Heron songs stretching from 1971's “Pieces of a Man” to 1994's “The Other Side”. It was recorded with producer Richard Russell between 2005 and 2009, in the same sessions that led to 2011's I’m New Here. In the liner notes Russell describes the album as “carefully curated (and) an excellent introduction to his previous output”, adding that “the album is utterly sparse and devoid of anything that is not completely necessary. All it contains is Gil’s singing and piano playing.”