Bridges is an album by Gil Scott-Heron

Gil Scott-Heron

Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...

 & Brian Jackson, released in Winter 1977 on Arista Records

Arista Records

Arista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...

.

Reception

The song, "We Almost Lost Detroit" which shares its title with the John G. Fuller

John G. Fuller

John Grant Fuller, Jr. was a New England-based American author of several non-fiction books and newspaper articles, mainly focusing on the theme of extra-terrestrials and the supernatural. For many years he wrote a regular column for the Saturday Review magazine, called "Trade Winds"...

 book

We Almost Lost Detroit

We Almost Lost Detroit, a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller, presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown. It was republished in 1984 by Berkley....

 published in 1975, recounts the story of the nuclear meltdown at the Fermi Atomic Power Plant

Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station

The Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station is a nuclear power plant on the shore of Lake Erie near Monroe, in Frenchtown Charter Township, Michigan. It is approximately halfway between Detroit, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio. It is also visible from parts of Amherstburg, Ontario. Two units have been...

 near Monroe, MI

Frenchtown Charter Township, Michigan

Frenchtown Charter Township is a charter township of Monroe County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 20,777 at the 2000 census. Frenchtown is the second most populated township in Monroe County after Bedford Township...

, in 1966. It was performed at the No Nukes concert in September 1979 at Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the...

. This song was also contributed to the No Nukes album in November 1979 and No Nukes concert film

No Nukes (film)

No Nukes is a 1980 documentary and concert film that contained selections from the September 1979 Madison Square Garden concerts by the Musicians United for Safe Energy collective, with Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, and John Hall being the key organizers of the event and guiding forces...

 in May 1980.

Track listing

Personnel

• Gil Scott-Heron
  Gil Scott-Heron
  Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...
  
   - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Piano
• Brian Jackson - Flute, Keyboards
• Danny Bowens - Bass
• Joe Blocker, Reggie Brubane - Drums
• Fred Payne, Marlo Henderson - Guitar
• Tony Duncanson, Barnett Williams - Percussion
• Bilal Sunni Ali - Saxophone
• Delbert Tailor - Trumpet

Charts

Year	Album	Chart positions
		US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	US R&B Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...	Jazz Albums
1977	Bridges	130	—	16

Legacy

• The song "We Almost Lost Detroit" is sampled by:
  • "Brown Skin Lady"" by Black Star on their Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star album
  • "The People"" by Common on his Finding Forever album
• The song "We Almost Lost Detroit" is covered by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
  Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
  Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. is an American indie-pop band from Detroit consisting of Daniel Zott and Joshua Epstein. Zott and Epstein met each other while playing in other Detroit music projects and began recording in Zott's basement in Royal Oak, MI...
  
  on their album It's a Corporate World (2011).

External links

• Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson-Bridges at Discogs