Naked & Warm

Naked & Warm
Studio album by Bill Withers
Released	1976
Recorded	1976
Studio	The Record Plant (Los Angeles, California)
Genre	Soul
Length	41:03
Label	Columbia
Producer	Bill Withers
Bill Withers chronology
Making Music (1975) Naked & Warm (1976) Menagerie (1977)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Christgau's Record Guide	B [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

• Recorded at Record Plant (Los Angeles, California).
• Mastered at A&M Studios (Hollywood, California).

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 (December 25, 1976). "The agony and the ecstacy" (PDF). Sounds . p. 17. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 31, 2023. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
4. "Bill Withers US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
5. "Bill Withers US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved August 29, 2011.

External links

• Bill Withers-Naked & Warm at Discogs