Low Ride is the 9th studio album by Earl Klugh released in 1983. The album features Klugh's signature sound of blending "heavy, rhythm-and-blues-oriented background with the feathery sound of Klugh". Conductor and arranger David Matthews joins Klugh on the orchestrated song "Christina". Track listing "Back in Central Park" (3:47) "(If You Want To) Be My Love" (5:18) "Low Ride" (5:36) "Just Like Yesterday" (4:26) "If You're Still in Love with Me" (2:37) "I Never Thought I'd Leave You" (3:46) "Christina" (4:09) "Night Drive" (6:48) Album Overview All the tracks on Low Ride were written by Earl Klugh and recorded in February and May 1982 at A&M Studios in Los Angeles and Mediasound in New York. The album was produced by Earl Klugh and Roland Wilson. Engineers included Tom Jung, Dave Palmer, Jim Cassell and Andy Hoffman. Dave Palmer assisted Earl Klugh and Roland Wilson with final mixing and track listing. Mastering was undertaken by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk, New York. The album was released by Capitol Records in the US and UK (although the UK pressing was promoted by EMI Records with Capitol retaining the label in the UK). In the UK, the album's catalogue number was: EST 12253. Low Ride is an album packed with an impressive list of jazz musicians of the day. Earl Klugh himself plays acoustic guitar, keyboards and dabbles with rhythm arrangements. He is joined by: Greg Phillinganes - keyboards and synthesizers Paul Jackson, Jr. - Electric Guitar Louis Johnson - Bass Guitar Raymond Pounds - Drums Paulinho Da Costa - Percussion Charles Meeks - Bass Guitar Denzil Miller - Electric Piano Lucio Harper - Bass Guitar Ronnie Foster - Electric Piano James Bradley, Jr. - Drums There were connections with other artists all over this album. Most of the album's personnel were extremely well known. Ronnie Foster and Greg Phillinganes had worked with George Benson (Foster appeared on Benson's award-winning Breezin''' (1976) LP as well as Benson's In Flight (1977) and Living Inside Your Love (1979)). Greg Phillinganes also appears on Living Inside Your Love with Earl Klugh amongst others - Earl wrote the title track. Paulinho Da Costa was a popular musician that worked with many artists whilst carving out a very interesting solo career, notably releasing the critically acclaimed club classic Deja Vu. Earl Klugh had honed much of his craft from George Benson. Benson himself did not appear on the Low