Naked Songs

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Naked Songs
Naked Songs cover
Studio album by Al Kooper
Released 1973
Recorded 1973
Genre Rock
Length 37:10
Label Columbia
Producer Al Kooper
Professional reviews
Al Kooper chronology
A Possible Projection of the Future / Childhood's End (1972) Naked Songs
(1973)		 Act Like Nothing's Wrong
(1977)

Naked Songs is the sixth and final album by singer-songwriter Al Kooper for Columbia Records, recorded and released in 1973.

A contract-fulfilling release, coming months after Kooper had set up the Sounds of the South label through MCA Records, it was quickly recorded at New York City's Record Plant (the first time Kooper had recorded in New York since 1970's Easy Does It) and at Studio I in Doraville, Georgia (where the following year Kooper would produce Lynyrd Skynyrd's smash hit "Sweet Home Alabama").

Mixing a heavier dose of gospel into the mix and the Arp synthesizer, Kooper effortlessly blended soul, rhythm and blues, rock, country and pop music much as he had on all of his Columbia albums.

[edit] Tracks

  1. "(Be Yourself) Be Real" (Al Kooper) – 3:26
  2. "As the Years Go Passing By" (Don Robey) – 6:03
  3. "Jolie" (Kooper) – 3:48
  4. "Blind Baby" (Kooper) – 3:07
  5. "Been and Gone" (Annette Peacock) – 2:35
  6. "Sam Stone" (John Prine) – 4:41
  7. "Peacock Lady" (Kooper) – 3:22
  8. "Touch the Hem of His Garment" (Sam Cooke) – 4:04
  9. "Where Were You When I Needed You" (Irwin Levine, Kooper) – 3:12
  10. "Unrequited" (Kooper) – 2:52

[edit] Personnel