Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band

Collins co-wrote all seven songs and did the arrangements, with Fred Wesley collaborating on the horns. Collins plays bass, guitar, drums and sings; the guitarists were Phelps Collins, Garry Shider and Michael Hampton; the drummers Cordell Mosson and Frank Waddy; the horns Wesley, Maceo Parker, Michael and Randy Brecker and Rick Gardner; Bernie Worrell played keyboards. Jim Vitti engineered. The sessions overlapped with Parliament's Mothership Connection and Funkadelic's Let's Take It to the Stage. AllMusic gave it 4.5 stars and Christgau a B-plus; Culture Sonar noted it was released weeks after Mothership Connection and lives up to its name. Rhino reissued it in 2007 through Collectors' Choice Music.