Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson Reggae Tribute Album Announced

pitchfork.com:

Washington D.C. reggae group the Archives have announced their new LP Carry Me Home. A Reggae Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, a reggae tribute to the two artists on what would have been Gil Scott-Heron’s 71s birthday.

The album was produced by the Archives’ Darryl “Trane” Burke and Thievery Corporation’s Eric Hilton, and is due out May 27 via Hilton’s Montserrat House label.

Check out the first single “A Toast to the People” featuring Raheem DeVaughn below. The record spans the breadth of Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson’s creative partnership, which lasted from the 1971 album Pieces of a Man (featuring the protest anthem “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”) through the 1980 LP 1980 and includes such classics as 1974’s Winter in