Tell It Like It Is is the seventh album by American guitarist George Benson featuring performances recorded in 1969 and released on the A&M label.
Reception
The Allmusic review states "Benson manages to transcend the blasting Latin-percussion-spiced production, the tight time limits, and all with often brilliantly tasty guitar fills and brief solos in many styles and three reverb-heavy vocals".
Track listing
"Soul Limbo" (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) – 3:25
"Are You Happy" (Theresa Bell, Jerry Butler, Kenneth Gamble) – 2:27
"Tell It Like It Is" (George Davis, Lee Diamond) – 2:51
"Land of 1000 Dances" (Chris Kenner) – 2:48
"Jackie, All" (Eumir Deodato) – 2:14
"Don't Cha Hear Me Callin' to Ya" (Rudy Stevenson) – 3:16
"Water Brother" (Don Sebesky) – 2:09
"My Woman's Good to Me" (Billy Sherrill, Glenn Sutton) – 3:14
"Jama Joe" (George Benson) – 3:49
"My Cherie Amour" (Stevie Wonder, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy) – 3:28
"Out in the Cold Again" (Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom) – 2:41
Personnel
George Benson – guitar, vocals
Lew Soloff – trumpet
Arthur Clarke (tracks 1–5), Bob Porcelli (tracks 6, 7 & 9), Hubert Laws (tracks 6, 7 & 9), Jerome Richardson (tracks 1–5, 8, 10 & 11), Joe Farrell (tracks 8, 10 & 11), Joe Henderson (tracks 8, 10 & 11), Sonny Fortune (tracks 1–5) – saxophone Rodgers Grant (tracks 6, 7 & 9), Richard Tee (tracks 1–5, 8, 10 & 11) – piano Bob Bushnell (tracks 1–5), Jerry Jemmott (tracks 1–7 & 9), Jim Fielder (tracks 8, 10 & 11) – bass guitar Leo Morris – drums Paul Alicea, Angel Allende, Johnny Pacheco – percussion Marty Sheller – arranger, conductor Technical Pete Turner – photography