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Al Kooper – Naked Songs (Japanese Edition)

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Al Kooper – Piano (A1-3, A5, B3-5), Organ (A1-2, B3-4), Guitar (A1-2, A4, B4)  Synthesizer (A1, A3-5, B1), Arpsichord (B2), Bass (B2)

Backing Vocals - Linda November, Maeretha Stewart, Tasha Thomas, Eileen Gilbert, Patti Austin, Albertine Robinson, Michael Gately, Robert John

Electric bass - John Paul Fetta (A1-2, A4-5, B4), Paul Goddard (A3, B1)

Drums - Junior Hanley (A1-2, A4-5, B4), Robert Nix (A3, B1), Maruga (B2)

Guitar - Charlie Brown (A2, A4), Barry Bailey (A3, B1)

String arrangements - Jimmy Wisner

Written by Al Kooper (A1, A3-A4, B2, B4-5), Don Malone (A2), Annette Peacock (A5), John Prine (B1), Sam Cooke (B3), Irwin Levine (B4)

 

 

1 LP, Standard sleeve

Limited edition

Original analog Master tape : YES

Heavy Press : 180g

Record color : black

Speed : 33RPM

Size : 12”

Stereo

Studio

Record Press : unspecified (Japan)

Label : Sony Records

Original Label : Columbia

Recorded in 1972 at  Colombia Record Plant Studios, New York, NY and Studio One, Doraville

Engineered by Al Kooper, Charlie Bradley, Don Puluse, Doug Pomeroy, Jerry Watson, Rodney Mills, Wayne Tarnowski

Produced and remixed by Al Kooper

Photography by Fred Lombardi

Originally released in March 2013

Reissued in 2024

 

Tracks:

Side A:

1. (Be Yourself) Be Real

2. As The Years Go Passing By

3. Jolie

4. Blind Baby

5. Been And Gone

Side B:

1. Sam Stone

2. Peacock Lady

3. Touch The Hem Of His Garnment

4. Where Were You When I Needed You

5. Unrequited

           

          Reviews :

          "Naked Songs represents the other end of Al Kooper's early career from I Stand Alone. Where that first album was recorded very gradually at the outset of his solo career, soon after exiting Blood, Sweat & Tears, Naked Songs was a much more cohesive work (cut in New York and Georgia) from the end of his stay at Columbia Records. Ironically, it was a contractually obligated album, but never one to throw away an opportunity, Kooper embraced soul, gospel, blues, pop, and even country music in the course of filling its two sides. Playing his usual array of instruments, including loud, note-bending blues guitar and gospel-tinged organ on "As the Years Go Passing By," he effortlessly switches gears to the smoother pop-soul sound of "Jolie," then straight country with a blues tinge on "Blind Baby." John Prine's grim and uncompromising "Sam Stone" gets an extraordinary performance, but the real surprise is the presence of Sam Cooke's Soul Stirrers-era gospel classic "Touch the Hem of His Garment" -- the latter is one of a pair of Cooke songs (the other is "A Change Is Gonna Come") that one would not expect any white artist to try and cover, much less do well, but Kooper does it justice and then some, and this track alone is worth the price of the album.

          The album benefits from the fact that Kooper had spent a good chunk of the prior year working with the Atlanta Rhythm Section (which appears here) as well as discovering Lynyrd Skynyrd. Naked Songs may have been intended mostly to get him out of his Columbia contract, but it proved a highlight of his career as well as his last new recording for four years." AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder

             

          Ratings :

          AllMusic : 5 / 5 , Discogs : 4 / 5

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