Free Will is the second studio album by American recording artist Gil Scott-Heron, released in August 1972 on Flying Dutchman Records. Recordings sessions for the album took place on March 2 and 3, 1972 at RCA Studios in New York City, and production was handled by producer Bob Thiele. It is the follow-up to Scott-Heron's critically acclaimed studio debut, Pieces of a Man (1971), and it is the second album to feature him working with keyboardist Brian Jackson. Free Will is also Scott-Heron's final studio album for Flying Dutchman. Limited vinyl LP reissue of Gil Scott-Heron's 1972 album. the album is special as one side consists of songs - all but one written with Brian Jackson - and the flipside is of poetry. Both forms showcase the political and the personal, in a way where even the time-specific lyrics transcend their era. Gil and Brian are backed an all-star band consisting of Bernard Purdie, Gerry Jemmott, Hubert Laws and David Spinozza. These help bring out the pathos in the achingly sad 'Did You Hear What They Say' - one of Gil's finest pieces of writing.

TRACKS
1 Free Will -
2 The Middle of the Day -
3 The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues -
4 Speed Kills -
5 Did You Hear What They Said? -
6 The King Alfred Plan -
7 No Knock -
8 Wiggy -
9 Ain't No New Thing -
10 Billy Green Is Dead -
11 Sex Education: Ghetto Style -
12 And Then He Wrote Meditations -