Gil Scott-Heron & Pretty Purdie
Artificialness
1971 · Mega 615-0065 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Gil Scott-Heron & Pretty Purdie
- Title
- Artificialness
- Release
- Funky Mozart / Artificialness
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Mega # 615-0065
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- Scott-Heron, P. Purdie
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Jazz-Funk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Artificialness (Purdie, Pretty & Gil Scott-Heron) Jazz funk, protest, Nixon Dear Nixon - wife has left me. I am a victim of the Vietnam War. In the DM zone at home, struck my wife before she struck me. Locked her in hotel. Please don't employ your next war, I'm following your lead.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Bernard Purdie - born 11 June 1939, Elkton, Maryland, USA. Currently New York, USA. Gil Scott-Heron, Born 1 April 1949, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died 27 May 2011, Manhattan, New York, USA