Bump City is the second album by the soul

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

/funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 group Tower of Power

Tower of Power

Tower of Power is an American R&B-based horn section and band, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing for over 43 years. They are best known for their funky soul sound highlighted by a powerful horn section...

. The album cover is derived from a sketch by David Garibaldi. It's also their first album for Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

. With Rufus Miller now gone, Rick Stevens took the reins as the sole lead vocalist for this album.

Track listing

All songs written by Emilio Castillo and Stephen "Doc" Kupka unless otherwise noted.

1. "You Got To Funkifize" - 4:31
2. "What Happened to the World That Day?" - 4:11
3. "Flash in the Pan" - 3:34
4. "Gone (In Memory Of Jacqueline Mesquite)" (Adams, Mesquite) - 3:41
5. "You Strike My Main Nerve" (Kupka, Castillo, Williams, Gordon) - 2:52
6. "Down To The Nightclub" (Kupka, Castillo, Garibaldi) - 2:43
7. "You're Still A Young Man" - 5:35
8. "Skating On Thin Ice" - 3:48
9. "Of The Earth" - 4:30

Personnel

• Rick Stevens - lead vocals
• Skip Mesquite - first tenor saxophone, flute, vocals (lead on "Gone")
• Emilio Castillo - second tenor saxophone, vocals
• Greg Adams - trumpet, flugelhorn (solo on "Gone"), french horn, piano (on "Gone"), vocals
• Stephen "Doc" Kupka - baritone saxophone, vocals
• Mic Gillette
  Mic Gillette
  Mic Gillette is an American brass player born in 1951 and raised in northern California's East Bay area. He is famous for being a member of Tower of Power, Cold Blood, and The Sons of Champlin....
  
   - trumpet, trombone, french horn, vocals
• Willie James Fulton - guitar, vocals
• David Garibaldi
  David Garibaldi
  David Garibaldi may refer to:* David Garibaldi , American musician* David Garibaldi , American performance artist...
  
   - drums
• Francis Rocco Prestia
  Rocco Prestia
  Francis «Rocco» Prestia is an American musician, the bassist of the legendary funk band Tower of Power and one of the most important figures in electric bass' history.- Biography :...
  
   - bass
• Brent Byars - conga drums, vocals
• Jay Spell - piano (on "What Happened To The World That Day," "You're Still A Young Man," and "Of The Earth")
• Memphis Strings - arranged and conducted by Greg Adams on "What Happened To The World That Day?," "You're Still A Young Man," and "Of The Earth"

Charts

Albums - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1972	The Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	85
1972	R&B Albums	16

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1972	"You're Still A Young Man"	The Billboard Hot 100	29
1972	"You're Still A Young Man"	R&B Singles	24
1972	"Down To The Nightclub"	The Billboard Hot 100	66