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Take Me Now is a solo album by David Gates of Bread.[4]

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Take Me Now
Studio album by David Gates
Released	August 1981
Genre	Soft rock
Length	32:59
Label	Arista[1] Pony Records
Producer	David Gates
David Gates chronology
Falling in Love Again (1980) Take Me Now (1981) Love Is Always Seventeen (1994)
Singles from Take Me Now
"Take Me Now" Released: September 1981

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]

The album peaked at #62 on the Billboard chart.[5]

Critical reception

Billboard praised the title track, calling it "an attractive midtempo ballad that's more upbeat than [Gates's] seamless pop classics of the early '70s."[6]

Track listing

All tracks composed by David Gates except where noted

1. "It's You" - 3:47
2. "Take Me Now" - 3:23
3. "She's a Heartbreaker" - 2:36
4. "This Could Be Forever" - 3:23
5. "Come Home for Christmas" - 3:07
6. "Still in Love" (Hadley Hockensmith, Kelly Willard, David Gates) - 3:18
7. "Vanity" - 3:15
8. "Nineteen on the Richter Scale" - 3:31
9. "Lady Valentine" - 3:34
10. "It's What You Say" - 3:05

Personnel

• David Gates - acoustic guitar (1, 4); guitar (2, 3, 10), bass (1, 2, 3, 4, 7); all instruments (5); keyboards (7); slide guitar (8); piano (9)
• Hadley Hockensmith - lead guitar (1, 3, 7, 8); electric guitar (4, 6); bass (6)
• Larry Knechtel - Fender Rhodes electric piano (1, 4); piano (2, 8); keyboards (3, 10); bass (9, 10)
• Paul Leim - drums (1-4, 6, 8-10); percussion (4)
• Mike Botts - drums (7)
• Craig Gates - percussion (4)
• Tom Scott - alto saxophone (4)
• Chuck Findley - flugelhorn (9)
• Dick Hyde - bass trumpet (9)

References

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