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Got My Own is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label. Gene Ammons enjoyed two stretches of popularity and commerciality in his career, justice having finally graced him and his talent after so many years of punishment in the last half of the Sixties. He was one of those many musicians who found out about heroin the hard way, and after he had become addicted there was the additional punishment of a 10-to-12-year prison stretch, courtesy of the State of Illinois, to endure. He was released in 1969 after serving seven years, and although there was the gratification of having an audience still waiting for him after all that time, there was still the frustration of being barred from making professional appearances in Manhattan jazz clubs for several months—a throwback to the iniquitous cabaret card system which had supposedly been disbanded. His music throughout his career drew from elements of R&B and the soul music that had exploded in his absence from the scene. But his recordings after his incarceration readily indicated that he was not passed by in the contemporary progression of popular black music.