Release Yourself

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Release Yourself
Graham Central Station Release Yourself.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1974
Recorded1974
Studio The Record Plant, Sausalito, California
Genre Funk [1]
Length37:40
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer Larry Graham
Graham Central Station chronology
Graham Central Station
(1974)
Release Yourself
(1974)
Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It
(1975)
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Release Yourself is the second album by Graham Central Station, released in 1974. The cover photograph was taken at Old Saint Hilary's Church, Tiburon, California. [3]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Larry Graham except where indicated

  1. "G.C.S." 3:24
  2. "Release Yourself" 4:44
  3. "Got To Go Through It To Get To It" 3:42
  4. "I Believe In You" 4:51
  5. "'Tis Your Kind of Music" 5:41
  6. "Hey Mr. Writer" 4:03
  7. "Feel the Need" (Abrim Tilmon) 3:53
  8. "Today" 6:43

Personnel

Technical

Charts

The album peaked at number twenty-two on the Billboard Top Soul Albums in 1974.

Chart (1974)Peak
position
Billboard Pop Albums [4] 51
Billboard Top Soul Albums [4] 22

References

  1. Dolan, Joe; Martoccio, Angie; Sheffield, Rob (November 20, 2024). "The 74 Best Albums of 1974". Rolling Stone . Retrieved November 30, 2024. It was a boom year for the funk: 1974 had cult faves from Mandrill (Mandrilland), Graham Central Station (Release Yourself), the Main Ingredient (Euphrates River), and Rasputin's Stash (The Devil Made Me Do It).
  2. Guarisco, Donald A.. Graham Central Station: Release Yourself > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  3. "Musical Maps".
  4. 1 2 "Graham Central Station US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved September 26, 2011.