On November 6, 1976, “Columbia” label released “Naked & Warm”, the fifth Bill Withers studio album. It was recorded in 1976, at “Record Plant” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Bill Withers.
Personnel:
- Bill Withers – lead and backing vocals
- Benorce Blackmon – guitar
- Geoffrey Leib – guitar, acoustic and electric piano
- Clifford Coulter – Moog synthesizer
- Don Freeman – acoustic and electric piano, synthesizer
- Youseff Rahman – electric piano
- Larry Nash – electric piano
- Jerry Knight – bass, backing vocals
- Melvin Dunlap – bass
- Larry Tolbert – drums
- Earl “Crusher” Bennett – congas, cowbell, slapstick, tambourine, vibraslap
- Kwasi “Rocky” Dzidzornu – congas
- Dorothy Ashby – harp, obbligato vocals
- Lenny Booker – backing vocals
- Lois Booker – backing vocals
- Helen Gonder – backing vocals
- Marsha Johnson – backing vocals
- Bob Merritt – engineer
- Phil Jamtaas – engineer assistant
- Rick Smith – assistant engineer
- Bernie Grundman – mastering
- Ken Anderson – design
- Tom Steele – design
- Elliot Gilbert – cover photography
Track listing:
All tracks by Bill Withers.
- Close to Me
- Naked & Warm (Heaven! Oh! Heaven!)
- Where You Are
- Dreams
- If I Didn’t Mean You Well
- I’ll Be with You
- City of the Angels
- My Imagination
