Release Yourself Explained

Release Yourself
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Graham Central Station
Cover:	Graham Central Station Release Yourself.jpg
Released:	September 1974
Recorded:	1974
Studio:	The Record Plant, Sausalito, California
Genre:	Soul Funk
Length:	37:40
Label:	Warner Bros. Records
Producer:	Larry Graham
Prev Title:	Graham Central Station
Prev Year:	1974
Next Title:	Ain't No 'Bout-A-Doubt It
Next Year:	1975

Release Yourself is the second album by Graham Central Station, released in 1974. The cover photograph was taken at Old Saint Hilary's Church, Tiburon, California.^[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Larry Graham except where indicated

1. "G.C.S." 3:24
2. "Release Yourself" 4:44
3. "Got To Go Through It To Get To It" 3:42
4. "I Believe In You" 4:51
5. "'Tis Your Kind of Music" 5:41
6. "Hey Mr. Writer" 4:03
7. "Feel the Need" (Abrim Tilmon) 3:53
8. "Today" 6:43

Personnel

• Larry Graham - bass, guitar, ARP synthesizer, tambourine, lead and backing vocals, cover concept
• Hershall "Happiness" Kennedy - horns, Clavinet, electric piano, tambourine, vocals
• Willie "Wild" Sparks - drums
• David "Dynamite" Vega - guitar
• Robert "Butch" Sam - organ, piano, tambourine, vocals
• Patryce "Choc'Let" Banks - drum programming [funk box], tambourine, vocals
• Emilio Castillo, Greg Adams, Lenny Pickett, Mic Gillette, Stephen Kupka - horns
• Lenny Williams - vocals

Technical

• Tom Salisbury - cover design, photography

Charts

The album peaked at number twenty-two on the Billboard Top Soul Albums in 1974.

Chart (1974)	Peak position
Billboard Pop Albums^[2]	51
Billboard Top Soul Albums	22

External links

• Graham Central Station-Release Yourself at Discogs
• - live on Soul Train 1975

Notes and References

1. Web site: Musical Maps.
2. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p17977/charts-awards/billboard-albums|pure_url=yes}} Graham Central Station US albums chart history]. allmusic.com. 2011-09-26.