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Bustin' Loose is a studio album released in 1979 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers.[1][5][6] The album includes the charting single and one of the all-time classic go-go songs "Bustin' Loose",[7] along with a remake of the classic Jerry Butler's soul ballad "Never Gonna Give You Up" from the 1968 album The Ice Man Cometh.[1]

Bustin' Loose
Studio album by Chuck Brown
Released	1979
Studio	Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia
Genre	Go-go soul jazz-funk
Length	39:06[1]
Label	Source Records
Producer	James Purdie Logan H. Westbrooks
Chuck Brown chronology
Salt of the Earth (1974) Bustin' Loose (1979) Funk Express (1980)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
ARTISTdirect	[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[3]
MusicHound R&B	3/5[4]

Bustin' Loose became Brown's first album to chart on the Billboard 200, where it peaked at number 31. On August 10, 1979, Bustin' Loose was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States.[8] The single "Bustin' Loose" was also certified gold by the RIAA on March 14, 1979.[8]

Track listing

Personnel

• Chuck Brown – lead vocals, electric guitar
• Jerry Wilder – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Gregory Gerran – congas, percussion
• Ricky Wellman – drums
• Leroy Fleming – tenor saxophone, flute, timbales, backing vocals
• Skip Fennell – keyboards
• Curtis Johnson - organ
• John Buchanan – keyboards, trombone, backing vocals
• Donald Tillery – trumpet, tambourine, backing vocals
• Leron Young - lead guitar on "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Could It Be :ove"
• Don Renaldo - strings on "Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Could It Be Love"
• Lincoln Ross - trombone on "Bustin' Loose"

Technical

• Logan H. Westbrooks - executive producer
• Carl Paruolo - engineer

References

External links

• Bustin' Loose at Discogs.com

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