Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - From South Africa To South Carolina

2024

The collaboration between Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson was now a formal one, as they were issuing albums as a team. This was their second duo project to make the pop charts, and it included anti-nuclear and anti-apartheid themes, plus less political, more autobiographical/reflective material like "Summer of '42," "Beginnings (The First Minute of a New Day)," and "Fell Together." Scott-Heron was now a campus and movement hero, and Jackson's production and arranging savvy helped make his albums as arresting musically as they were lyrically.

Ron Wynn

Johannesburg
A Toast to the People
The Summer of '42
Beginnings (The First Minute of the New Day)
South Carolina (Barnwell)
Essex
Fell Together
A Lovely Day
South Carolina (Barnwell) [live from the No Nukes Concert, Madison Square Garden]
Save the Children (Live from Blues Alley, Washington DC)
Johannesburg (Live from Gil Scott-Heron: Black Wax)
Let Me See Your I.D. (From Sun City: Artists Against Apartheid)