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Graham Central Station (album)

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Released
  
1974

Genre
  
Soul Funk

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

Recorded
  
1973–1974

Length
  
38:23

Producer
  
Larry Graham Russ Titelman

Graham Central Station is the self-titled debut album by former Sly and the Family Stone bass player Larry Graham's new band, "Graham Central Station".

Contents

Background

In late 1972, Larry Graham quit Sly and the Family Stone because of tension between Larry and group leader Sly Stone. After agreeing to produce a band named Hot Chocolate (not to be confused with British pop band Hot Chocolate), he decided to join the band and renamed them Graham Central Station in 1973.

Reception

Released in 1974, the album peaked at number twenty on the Billboard Top Soul Albums charts while single, "Can You Handle It?" peaked at #9 on the Billboard Soul Singles chart.

Track listing

All songs written by Larry Graham except where indicated

  1. "We've Been Waiting" – 0:58
  2. "It Ain't No Fun To Me" (Al Green) – 5:11
  3. "Hair" – 4:55
  4. "We Be's Gettin' Down" – 4:42
  5. "Tell Me What It Is" – 5:56
  6. "Can You Handle It?" – 5:12
  7. "People" (Larry Graham, Freddie Stone) – 4:30
  8. "Why?" – 3:37
  9. "Ghetto" – 4:24

Musicians

  • Larry Graham – bass, guitar, piano, keyboards, drums, lead and backing vocals, horn arrangements
  • Freddie Stone – guitar
  • Hershall "Happiness" Kennedy – clavinet, trumpet
  • Willie "Wild" Sparks – drums
  • David "Dynamite" Vega – guitar
  • Robert "Butch" Sam – piano, organ
  • P. Caboose – tenor saxophone
  • Patryce "Choc'Let" Banks – vocals, drum programming (Funk Box)
  • Milt Holland – percussion
  • Lenny Williams – vocals
  • Clarence McDonald – string arrangements

    • Technical

  • Mike Salisbury - cover design
  • Herb Greene – photography

    • References

    Graham Central Station (album) Wikipedia
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