Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - Winter in America

:-( [With this artist, I would prefer to go with the two best-ofs, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, excerpting from his first three albums, and The Best of Gil Scott-Heron, which, other than the song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," excerpts from his Arista period. But I’m not getting the latter for reasons you can read in that review. The one undeniable song on this is “The Bottle,” which I have on The Funk Box. In sum, this has its moments, but is overall extremely bland and not going in the collection. I do own the entirety of Pieces of a Man, another of his early albums, on the comp The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, but only because the compilers ended up including the whole thing on the CD version of that. It’s also got better reviews from users on Allmusic than this one, with good reason, I think – this one gets over-rated because of the presence of “The Bottle.”]