Gil Scott-Heron AND BRiAN JACKSON - The Bottle

The is the official music video for Gil Scott-Heron's 1974 cult classic The Bottle. When this song was produced the infamous jazz poet, and son of an opera singer, had just finished three albums, two novels and had just received a Masters in Creative Writing. This song from the classic Winter In America album, the first of several collaborations between Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, has been covered numerous times by Joe Bataan and others, and the song has been sampled by De La Soul, S Express, Jungle Brothers and others.