Naked & Warm

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

Naked & Warm
Studio album by Bill Withers
Released	1976
Recorded	1976
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]

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 "Rocki" Dzidzomu – 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[3]	169
Billboard Top Soul Albums[3]	41

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions[4]
		US R&B
1976	"If I Didn't Mean You Well"	74
1977	"Close To Me"	88

External links

• Bill Withers-Naked & Warm at Discogs

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. "Bill Withers US albums chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-08-29.
4. "Bill Withers US singles chart history". allmusic.com. Retrieved 2011-08-29.