I slept on Bobby Womack...Womack Appreciation
Gnat
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Dude. This is some serious shit. "If you think you're lonely now" is FUCKING killing it for me right now. LP Recommendations? Lesser known shit? Across 110th Street was obviously popularized by "Jackie Brown"...but damn...how'd I sleep on this? God damn he can build a track...
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Zing! Good one. LOL
Circa late 80's. Had a video too.
It was on a Wilton Felder album on MCA. Can't recall the title at the moment. Womack was a guest vocalist.
Cool. I have the track on a greatest cd.
with the valentinos and post.
check out Fly Me To The Moon LP if you can grab it.
just a nice mellow soul album.
Fly me to the moon is nice, definitely an earlier soul style, but very dope. I also like his cover of the beatles "and i love her" off the understanding lp, which has been jacked by ayatollah and little brother, among others. Back in the day i had a copy of across 110th st. soundtrack, which is half womack, and half the jj johnson score, very uptempo and funky, bobby's got a pretty deep catalog, anyone know if he still plays shows...
From All Music:
Womack pushed UA into letting him do a full album of country music, something he'd always loved but which the label regarded as commercially inadvisable (especially under the title Womack reportedly wanted to use: Step Aside, Charley Pride, Give Another Nigger a Try).
Bobby's country album (B.W. Goes C&W) is actually pretty good! For what it's worth, I like "I'd Be Ahead If I Could Quit While I'm Behind" so much that it's the most-played song on my personal iTunes at work...
SHOW SOME RESPECK
"communication"---is that sly stone singing backup?
"i can understand it"---not as funky as new birth but an awesome cut
I used to have that elpee. It's...OKAY, but I'd rather show some R-E-S-P-E-C-T for his Minit/Liberty/UA stuff.
recent thread on similar topic :
http://soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showflat...true#Post567906
at the rate we're going, bobby womack is the new curtis mayfield on this board. seems like a year and a half ago, there was a curtis appreciation thread popping up every couple of weeks, so now its bobby's turn, i reckon.
yeah, um, i was talking about the cover "art" more than the music. it looks like there's a vortex where his package should be... maybe a closer look is in order:
RIP.
It's 1984 or 85 and I am in my hometown of Hannover, Germany. The name Bobby Womack is familiar to me and through reading Blues & Soul I am aware both of his legendary status from older work and his recent appreciation by the Soul crowd of The Poet. But I do not have any of his records and sometimes wonder whether I am missing out on something while I spend my money on HipHop, Electro and Boogie.
And then, one afternoon, I walk through a car park in the center of town when I get approached by a woman who asks me whether I have ever heard of Bobby Womack. I tell her that I have heard of him but not sure whether I have heard him. She just smiles, reaches into a large sport bag and gives me a copy of The Poet II.
I am a bit startled and ask whether this is some kind of record label promotion to which she replies: "No. I just think that the world needs to hear this guy, so I bought 40 copies of his album to give to people."