Tracklist

# Title Rating Length
  CD 1
11 On Coming From a Broken Home, Part 1
5 2:21
22 Me and the Devil
5 3:34
33 I'm New Here
3 3:33
44 Your Soul and Mine
2:02
55 Parents (interlude)
0:19
66 I'll Take Care of You
3 2:58
77 Being Blessed (interlude)
3 0:13
88 Where Did the Night Go
5 1:14
99 I Was Guided (interlude)
0:14
1010 New York Is Killing Me
4:30
1111 Certain Things (interlude)
0:08
1212 Running
2:01
1313 The Crutch
5 2:45
1414 I've Been Me (interlude)
0:17
1515 On Coming From a Broken Home, Part 2
5 2:15

Relationships

additional guest lead vocals:
Kim Jordan (track 10)
additional guest piano:
Kim Jordan (track 6)
additional mixer:
Rodaidh McDonald (tracks 1–15)
additionally recorded by:
Rodaidh McDonald (tracks 1–15)
assistant engineer:
Royce Jeffres (tracks 1–2, 4–15)
assistant mixer:
Royce Jeffres (tracks 1–15)
composer:
Brook Benton (tracks 6, 6)
Bill Callahan (tracks 3, 3)
Richard Russell (tracks 4, 12–13)
Gil Scott-Heron (tracks 1, 5, 7–11, 14–15)
design/illustration:
Phil Lee (designer) [ Remove | Edit ]
engineer:
Ichiho Nishiki (track 3)
Lawson White (tracks 1–2, 4–15)
guest background vocals:
Tiona Hall (track 10)
Michelle Hutcherson (track 10)
Tyria Stokes (track 10)
guest guitar:
Pat Sullivan (track 3)
guest strings:
Mike Block (tracks 4, 6, 13)
Christiana Liberis (tracks 4, 6, 13)
Mary Jo Stilp (tracks 4, 6, 13)
Una Tone (tracks 4, 6, 13)
lead vocals:
Gil Scott-Heron (tracks 1–15)
lyricist:
Brook Benton (tracks 6, 6)
Robert Johnson (1930s blues legend) (track 2)
Gil Scott-Heron (tracks 1, 4–5, 7–15)
mixer:
Lawson White (tracks 1–15)
photography:
producer:
Richard Russell (tracks 1–15)
strings arranger:
Lawson White (tracks 4, 6, 13)
samples:
Flashing Lights by Kanye West feat. Dwele (tracks 1, 15)
ASIN:
Discogs:
cover recording of:
I'm New Here (track 3)
Me and the Devil (track 2)
recording of:
I'm New Here (track 3)
Running (track 12)
The Crutch (track 13)
Your Soul and Mine (track 4)