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Soulful, seething, poetic and powerful, Gil’s early masterpiece from ’71 is the one that unleashed the immortal The Revolution Will Not Be Televised plus his classics Lady Day and John Coltrane and Home Is Where the Hatred Is. To hear Gil’s songs—including the beautiful title tune and I Think I’ll Call It Morning—and that wickedly funky backing by Bernard Purdie, Ron Carter and Hubert Laws in audiophile-vinyl quality (180-gram, inside a limited-edition gatefold sleeve), opt for the LP. But if you go for the CD, you’ll also get three tracks (two previously unreleased) by Gil’s college group Black and Blues! BGP.