Free Will

Tracklist

• 1
  Free Will
  3:42
• 2
  The Middle of Your Day
  4:32
• 3
  The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues
  5:11
• 4
  Speed Kills
  3:18
• 5
  Did You Hear What They Said?
  3:30
• 6
  The King Alfred Plan
  2:46
• 7
  No Knock
  2:10
• 8
  Wiggy
  1:36
• 9
  Ain't No New Thing
  4:32
• 10
  Billy Green Is Dead
  1:28
• 11
  Sex Education: Ghetto Style
  0:50
• 12
  ... And Then He Wrote Meditations
  3:13
• 13
  Free Will (Alt Take 1)
  2:57
• 14
  The Middle of Your Day (Alt Take 1)
  4:41
• 15
  The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues (Alternate Ending)
  5:06
• 16
  Speed Kills (Alt Take 3)
  3:19
• 17
  Did You Hear What They Said? (Alt Take 1)
  3:31
• 18
  The King Alfred Plan (Alt)
  3:01
• 19
  No Knock (Alt)
  2:04
• 20
  Wiggy (Alt)
  1:32
• 21
  Ain't No New Thing (Breakdown Take)
  2:39
• 22
  Billy Green Is Dead (Alt)
  1:33
• 23
  ... And Then He Wrote Meditations (Alt)
  1:31

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Release credits

• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [1-5]
• Bob Simpson
  mix [1-12]
• Bob Thiele
  producer [1-12]
• Brian Jackson
  bell [1-5], flute [1-12], piano [1-5], vocal [1-5]
• Charlie Saunders
  percussion [6-12]
• David Spinozza
  guitar [1-5]
• Eddie Knowles
  percussion [6-12]
• Gil Scott‐Heron
  lead vocals [1-9, 11], vocal [10, 12]
• Horace Ott
  arranger [1-5], conductor [1-5]
• Hubert Laws
  piccolo [1-5]
• Jerry Jemmott
  bass [1-5]
• Lillian Seyfert
  co [1-12]

Issues

• 

  F
  Free Will

  12" Vinyl
  1972
• 

  F
  Free Will

  CD
  21 July 1993
• F
  Free Will

  CD
  1993
• 

  F
  Free Will

  CD
  2001
• 

  F
  Free Will

  CD
  2001
• 

  F
  Free Will

  Digital Media
  29 September 2014
• 

  F
  Free Will

  CD
  2014