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Infobox Album | | Name = Naked Songs| Type = Album | Artist = Al Kooper | Cover = Kooper7.jpg| Released = January 1973| Recorded = 1972| Genre = Rock music|Rock | Length = 37:10| Label = Columbia Records|Columbia | Producer = Al Kooper | Last album = '' A Possible Projection of the Future / Childhood's End (1972) | This album = Naked Songs (1973)| Next album = '' Act Like Nothing's Wrong (1977) Album ratings| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = Rating|4|5cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r11193 |title=Naked Songs - Al Kooper & #124; AllMusic |first=B. |last=Eder |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 last update |accessdate=26 July 2011| rev2 =| rev2Score =Naked Songs is the sixth and final album by singer-songwriter Al Kooper for Columbia Records , 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 One in Doraville, Georgia (where the following year Kooper would produce Lynyrd Skynyrd 's smash hit " Sweet Home Alabama (song)|Sweet Home Alabama ").
Mixing a heavier dose of gospel into the mix and the Arp synthesizer, Kooper effortlessly blended Soul music|soul , rhythm and blues , Rock music|rock , Country music|country and pop music|pop music much as he had on all of his Columbia albums.
Tracks
All tracks composed by Al Kooper; except where indicated
# "(Be Yourself) Be Real" – 3:26 # "As the Years Go Passing By" ( Don Robey ) – 6:03 # "Jolie" – 3:48 # "Blind Baby" – 3:07 # "Been and Gone" ( Annette Peacock ) – 2:35 # " Sam Stone (song)|Sam Stone " ( John Prine ) – 4:41 # "Peacock Lady" – 3:22 # "Touch the Hem of His Garment" ( Sam Cooke ) – 4:04 # "Where Were You When I Needed You" (Irwin Levine, Kooper) – 3:12 # "Unrequited" – 2:52
Personnel
Al Kooper: piano , organ (music)|organ , guitar s, ARP Instruments, Inc.|ARP synthesizer , harpsichord , bass guitar|electric bass
With
John Paul Fetta : electric bass (tracks 1-2, 4-5, 9)
