Take Your Partner by the Hand

Then when I finished my album I sent him out a CD and he rang up and said, 'Howie I'd love to do a vocal on 'Take Your Partner By The Hand'.

[5] Jim DeRogatis gave the song a negative review, saying, "For the benefit of those older listeners who are still having trouble with this new-fangled music, Howie B includes 'Take Your Brother By the Hand', a track co-written by former Band leader Robbie Robertson.

[6] Electronicmusic.com disagreed, saying, "A narrative on 'Take Your Partner By The Hand' describes some dreamy inner city situation similar to the ramblings of the entrepreneur on Grace Jones' Slave To The Rythm [sic] who subsequently [sic] jettisons her to stardom".

[4][7] The DJ Premier remix of the song was featured in the album Contact from the Underworld of Redboy.

[8] It was also included in Robertson's 2002's compilation album, Classic Masters, which raised the ire of AllMusic chief editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine, who dismissed it as a "non-starter, since not only did he not have hits from this era, he made albums that were mood pieces, intended to be taken that way".