| features in: Album Chart of 1977 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s |
For my tastes, the subtle change from the jazzy to the funky since signing to Arista has been very welcome, and the relative improvement continues on “Bridges”, which finds Scott-Heron sounding more like an actual soul singer than ever before. “We Almost Lost Detroit” is the highlight for me, concerning itself with Fermi 1, which, as Wikipedia tells, was America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown. It took four years for the reactor to be repaired, and then performance was poor. In 1972, the reactor core was dismantled and the reactor was decommissioned. America's first effort at operating a full-scale breeder had failed. Scott-Heron remembers the activist Karen Silkwood who was most likely murdered in '74 for her troublesome investigations and reportings. Whilst we never quite lost Detroit, we most certainly lost Karen Silkwood.
The Jukebox Rebel
25–Mar–2011
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:37]  Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - Hello Sunday! Hello Road! (Gil Scott-Heron) Disco / Funk |
| A2 | [03:53]  Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - Song Of The Wind (Gil Scott-Heron) R n B |
| A3 | [04:15]  Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - Racetrack In France (Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson) Disco / Funk |
| A4 | [07:41]  Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - Vildgolia (Deaf, Dumb And Blind) (Gil Scott-Heron, Brian Jackson) R n B |
| B1 | [03:59]  Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - Under The Hammer (Gil Scott-Heron) Disco / Funk |
| B2 | [05:19]  Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - We Almost Lost Detroit (Gil Scott-Heron) R n B |
| B3 | [00:33]  Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - Tuskeegee #626 (Gil Scott-Heron) Soul |
| B4 | [05:45]  Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - Delta Man (Where I’m Comin’ From) (Gil Scott-Heron) Soul |
| B5 | [04:15]  Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - 95 South (All Of The Places We’ve Been) (Gil Scott-Heron) R n B |
