Album: I’m New Here
Year: 2010
Nearly 40 years after “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” became an instant and forever maxim, Gil Scott-Heron walked into a recording studio for the first time in 15 years and laid down maybe the first Robert Johnson cover in years — maybe ever, really — that captured the spirit of hopelessness and dismay that permeated so many of Johnson’s recordings.
With his voice wrecked from years of abuse, Scott-Heron sounded like he had first-hand knowledge of walking side by side with the Devil, and it showed in every nook and cranny of the performance.
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