Tag: Gil Scott-Heron
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Kiki and Herb – Whitey on the moon
A few things I thought I’d never see – a new Kiki & Herb release, and Kiki & Herb on Bandcamp – they’re back! And with a EP of live recordings including their excellent cover of Gil Scott-Heron’s ‘Whitey On The Moon’ with all proceeds going to the queer & trans black organisation ‘Black Visions…
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Home Is Where The Hatred Is
‘Little’ Esther Phillips had been the same place Gil had battling addiction, which is why her searing cover of ‘Home Is Where The Hatred’ is stands up to the original. Apparently she was up for a Grammy that year, Aretha Franklin won it, then gave it to Esther saying she was the best vocalist that…
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Prisencolinensinainciusol – you can say that again
Starts 1:30 min in by the way…prefer this original version, as other ‘remixed’ versions someone has slapped their Myspace name and large constant watermark all over it (just for cutting two of the live videos together, and not very well at that!). Here’s the other ‘Sesame Street’ style video too. Not sure this really is…