Naked & Warm

Naked & Warm
Studio album by
Bill Withers
Released1976
Recorded1976
StudioThe Record Plant (Los Angeles, California)
GenreSoul
Length41:03
LabelColumbia
ProducerBill Withers
Bill Withers chronology
Making Music
(1975) 		Naked & Warm
(1976) 		Menagerie
(1977)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Christgau's Record GuideB[2]
Sounds[3]

Naked & Warm is the fifth studio album by American soul singer-songwriter and producer Bill Withers, released in 1976 by Columbia Records.

Track listing

All songs written by Bill Withers.

  1. "Close To Me" - 3:55
  2. "Naked & Warm (Heaven! Oh! Heaven!)" - 5:47
  3. "Where You Are" - 3:54
  4. "Dreams" - 5:34
  5. "If I Didn't Mean You Well" - 3:04
  6. "I'll Be With You" - 3:12
  7. "City of the Angels" - 10:45
  8. "My Imagination" - 4:52

Personnel

  • Bill Withers – lead vocals, backing vocals (3, 4)
  • Benorce Blackmon – guitar (1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8)
  • Geoffrey Leib – guitar (1-8), electric piano (1, 7), acoustic piano (2, 3, 4, 6, 7)
  • Clifford Coulter – Moog synthesizer (1, 4, 5)
  • Don Freeman – electric piano (1-4, 6, 7), acoustic piano (5), synthesizer (7)
  • Youseff Rahman – electric piano (2)
  • Larry Nash – electric piano (8)
  • Jerry Knight – bass (1, 3-7), backing vocals (2)
  • Melvin Dunlap – bass (2)
  • Larry Tolbert – drums (1-7)
  • Earl "Crusher" Bennett – congas (1, 3-7, cowbell (1, 3-7), slapstick (1, 3-7), tambourine (1, 3-7), vibraslap (1, 3-7)
  • Kwasi "Rocky" Dzidzornu – congas (1, 3)
  • Dorothy Ashby – harp (2, 7, 8), obbligato vocals (2, 7, 8)
  • Lenny Booker – backing vocals (2)
  • Lois Booker – backing vocals (2)
  • Helen Gonder – backing vocals (2)
  • Marsha Johnson – backing vocals (2)

Production

  • Bill Withers – producer
  • Bob Merritt – engineer
  • Phil Jamtaas – assistant engineer
  • Rick Smith – assistant engineer
  • Bernie Grundman – mastering
  • Ken Anderson – design
  • Tom Steele – design
  • Elliot Gilbert – cover photography
Studios

Charts

Chart (1976) Peak
position
Billboard Pop Albums[4] 169
Billboard Top Soul Albums[4] 41

Singles

Year Single Chart positions[5]
US
R&B
1976 "If I Didn't Mean You Well" 74
1977 "Close To Me" 88

References

  1. ^ Music, All. Bill Withers: Naked & Warm > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: W". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 22, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Goldman, Vivien (25 December 1976). "The agony and the ecstacy" (PDF). Sounds. p. 17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Bill Withers US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-08-29.
  5. ^ "Bill Withers US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-08-29.