• Source: Bridges (Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson album)

Bridges is an album by Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, released in the fall of 1977 on Arista Records.




"We Almost Lost Detroit"


The song "We Almost Lost Detroit", which shares its title with the 1975 John G. Fuller book of the same name, recounts the story of the nuclear meltdown at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station in Frenchtown Township near Monroe, Michigan, in 1966. It was performed at the No Nukes concert in September 1979 at Madison Square Garden. This song was also contributed to the No Nukes album in November 1979 and No Nukes concert film in May 1980.




Track listing






Personnel


Gil Scott-Heron - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Brian Jackson - Flute, Keyboards, T.O.N.T.O.
Danny Bowens - Bass
Joe Blocker, Reggie Brisbane - Drums
Fred Payne, Marlo Henderson - Guitar
Tony Duncanson, Barnett Williams - Percussion
Bilal Sunni Ali - Saxophone
Delbert Tailor - Trumpet




Charts






Legacy


The song "We Almost Lost Detroit" is sampled by:
"Brown Skin Lady" by Black Star on Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
"The People" by Common on Finding Forever
The song "We Almost Lost Detroit" is covered by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. on their album It's a Corporate World (2011).




References






External links


Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson-Bridges at Discogs

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Bridges (Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson album)
• Secrets (Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson album)
• Gil Scott-Heron
• Bridges (disambiguation)
• The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron
• Pieces of a Man
• Nothing New (album)
• Winter in America
• It's Your World (album)
• Brian Jackson (musician)