Naked & Warm

Naked & Warm
Studio album by Bill Withers
Released	November 6, 1976
Recorded	1976
Studios	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
Christgau's Record Guide	B
Sounds

Naked & Warm is the fifth studio album by American soul singer-songwriter and producer Bill Withers. The album was released on November 6, 1976, through 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)

Charts

References

External links

• Bill Withers-Naked & Warm at Discogs