Sometimes you just have to roll with the selections of the random jukebox, and today it zipped back to 1971 and Home Is Where The Hatred Is by the no-nonsense bluesologist Gil Scott-Heron, who died seven years ago today.
Anyone with a keen sense of musical history will tell you Heron’s gritty fusion of R&B, soul, jazz-funk, and proto-rap was an eminently important progenitor of hip hop and electronic dance music. They wouldn’t be wrong.
Steve Pafford
