Track listing

1. "Johannesburg" 4:52
2. "A Toast To The People" 5:47
3. "The Summer Of '42" 4:42
4. "Beginnings (The First Minutes Of A New Day)" 6:23

1. "South Carolina" 3:45
2. "Essex" 9:17
3. "Fell Together" 4:30
4. "A Lovely Day" 3:29

Bonus tracks

1. "South Carolina (Barnwell)" (Live from the No Nukes concert 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...
   
   ) 6:29
2. "Save The Children" (Live from Blues Alley, Washington DC) 4:23
3. "Johannesburg" (Live from Gil Scott-Heron: Black Wax) 11:14
4. "Let Me See Your I.D." (from Sun City: Artists Against Apartheid) 7:30

Personnel

• Gil Scott-Heron - vocals, electric piano
  Electric piano
  An electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...
  
  
• Brian Jackson - vocals, flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  
• Victor Brown - vocals, tambourine
  Tambourine
  The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
  
  , bells
• Bilal Sunni Ali - saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  , flute, harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  
• Danny Bowens - bass
• Bob Adams - drums
• Charlie Saunders - congas, Chinese drum
• Barnett Williams - congas, gambe drums, shekere
  Shekere
  This article is about the musical instrument. for the musical genre, see Sekere.The shekere is an instrument from West Africa consisting of a dried gourd with beads woven into a net covering the gourd. Throughout the continent there are similar gourd/bead or gourd/seed percussion instruments. Some...
  
  
• Adenola - congas