Back to Oakland

Infobox Album
Name = Back To Oakland
Type = Album
Artist = Tower of Power
Released = 1974
Recorded =
Genre = Soul, Funk
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer = Tower of Power
Last album = " Tower of Power"
(1973)
This album = "Back To Oakland"
(1974)
Next album = "Urban Renewal"
(1974)

Back to Oakland is an album released in 1974 by the Tower of Power. Back To Oakland is the fourth album by Tower of Power, and the third released on Warner Bros. Records.

Track list

#Oakland Stroke... - :53
#Don't Change Horses (In The Middle of a Stream) - 4:28
#Just When We Start Makin' It - 6:30
#Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong) - 3:00
#Squib Cakes - 7:49
#Time Will Tell - 3:11
#Man from the Past - 4:00
#Love's Been Gone So Long - 4:47
#I Got the Chop - 2:59
#Below Us, All the City Lights - 4:20
#...Oakland Stroke - 1:08

Personnel

*Lenny Pickett - 1st tenor sax, alto sax, bass sax, soprano sax, flute, alto flute, piccolo
*Stephen "Doc" Kupka (The Doctor) - baritone sax, English horn, background vocals
*Greg Adams - trumpet, fluegelhorn, orchestra bells, background vocals
*Mic Gillette - trumpet, fluegelhorn, trombone, bass trombone, background vocals
*Bruce Conte - guitar, background vocals
*Chester Thompson - organ, bass pedals, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, clavinet, background vocals
*Emilio Castillo - 2nd tenor sax, background vocals
*Brent Byars - conga drums
*David Garibaldi - drums
*Francis Rocco Prestia - bass
*Lenny Williams - lead vocals