Bobby Womack C/D

Alzheimers. Poor guy.

BMITU just missed my Top Ten, but it was a very good year.

http://www.amoeba.com/sized-images/maxs/800/600/uploads/past-performances/hollywood/2012/06.15.2012_Bobby_Womack_Signing/bobbyWomackSigning-7.jpg

I saw D.C. old-school soul singer Eddie Jones do a great version of "Harry Hippie" the other night. Was listening to Womack this morning--"Across 110th Street" is so passionate.

I like his rendition of "California Dreamin'" too

I can't believe I've gotten this far in life without reading about the Womack clan...iirc Bobby married Sam Cooke's widow (2 months after Sam was killed) while steppin with her daughter Linda who married Cecil who married Mary Wells who later shacked up w another Womack brother whose name escapes me. If there's a biography there I'm going to read it.

The Bravest Man in the Universe, indeed.

Despite current health issues, he's doing some gigs

Live
Sunday May 4, 2014
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans

Thursday June 12, 2014
AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas

Saturday June 14, 2014
Bonarroo Music And Arts Festival, Manchester

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bobby-womack-dead-at-70-20140627

Teenie Hodges, Hi Rhythm and Al Green guitarist died the other day and now the great Bobby Womack (teenage gospel singer, guitarist with Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett and Sly Stone, pal of the Rolling Stones and successful solo artist). RIP Bobby

So sad. A life and a legacy both.

Did he make that Bonarroo date, I wonder.

I feel it is worth mentioning that his recent "comeback" album The Bravest Man in the Universe was a) one of the very few of these kinds of things that wasn't just him and a bunch of guest stars rehashing his old hits, but rather an album of new material, and b) was really, really good.

Not sure if he really played on "Suspicious Minds" but who cares. RIP.

Major RIP :(

This sucks, his music was a big part of my life

Never knew he was left-handed and played upside down.

Extra sad this came in the middle of a career revival. RIP.

i saw him a few months ago at jazzfest and he was absolutely incredible, no surprise. rip, blasting the shit out of the poet all day

Yeah RIP. Very significant in my teenage years. I never saw him perform, to me he had everything.

Not sure if he really played on "Suspicious Minds" but who cares. RIP.

― That's How Strong My Dub Is (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:27 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...especially when he is all the fuck over there's a riot goin' on.

blasting that's the way i feel about cha right now.

RIP bobby.

Hm. Didn't even realize he was on that. Must...read...the credits... carefully...as in the old days.

i don't think there are actually proper credits on that LP! but it's well-known.

I feel pretty silly for having listened to Riot for 25 years and not knowing Womack was on it until two days ago.

NYTimes obit:

Correction: June 28, 2014

An earlier version of this obituary rendered incorrectly one word in the title of Sly Stone’s most ambitious album, which Bobby Womack helped produce and which is now a soul classic. The title is “There’s a Riot Goin’ On,” not “There’s a Riot Going On.”

He's got some credits that are hard to keep track of, like Kaylan and Volman.

RIP Bobby.

(Just noticed I started this thread and I never start threads...)

You must have been moved to do so by the passing of Jim Ford.

You can check the timing here

stones do all over now in tribute

First time I saw him he opened for the Stones

Extra sad this came in the middle of a career revival. RIP.

Not as sad as if it had happened before a career revival though. At least he got the chance to make a great record, get back on the road, play arena shows and festival headliners with Gorillaz and get adoring press.

Its sad that he died, period at age 70.

Fresh Air has been replaying the 1999 interview, which you can download---lots of good stories and musical excerpts (also at least one xpost goofy but invigorating cover so far):
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/11/330713212/fresh-air-remembers-soul-singer-and-songwriter-bobby-womack Also, at least one fairly recent Memphis show in the Beale Street Caravan archive:http://bealestreetcaravan.com/ But I just tried to download that one too, with Firefox's Flashgot, as I've done on BSC.com before; this time it crashed my computer. Oh well, gently down the stream.

http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS1703184-02A-BIG.jpg

just dunno

dunno what the world is coming to either. Wish Bobby was still around to share that

Ha I'm listening to that album right now... halfway thru the track "Git It", which I've just noticed (are you reading this Shakey + Kerr?) has lead guitar by Glen Goins... as does the next track.

Also just noticed that Bobby plays a lot of bass on this album ... and guess what? He's fucking good!

wicker game strong as well

RIP
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bobby-womack-dead-at-70-20140627

:((((((( RIP Bobby

... wait a minute, he's already dead!

Yes, I'm an idiot. Sorry. This is what happens when you see something on a friend's Facebook page and you fail to check.

I looked for a while and this Bobby Womack "Soul Sides" 2 cd compilation that came out on Metro Select in the Uk is a good compilation. He did alot of ballad material (stuff not unlike Isaac Hayes), but I love his stuff when it gets funky as his guitar is always really tasty. Good comp. 'Across 110th Street' was always the tune that got me interested in Womack's music.

"Daylight" is his ultimate masterpiece. The catchier things he did, the more ornate work, is his best; as a conventional soul singer doing the conventional cover versions, except for "Fly Me to the Moon," he wasn't all that interesting. "How I Miss You Baby," "What Is This," "It's Gonna Rain" (Tommy Cogbill's bass rules), "Arkansas State Prison," "That's the Way I Feel About Cha," and the mind-boggling "You're Welcome, Stop on By" are amazing. I don't care for his '70s albums, by and large--the material isn't there and his covers are forgettable. "If You Think You're Lonely Now" from '80 is his last great moment. I like his more obvious stuff from the Moman recordings, "Broadway Walk" and so forth. But he was never really the soul vocalist his peers were, so it has a self-regarding edge that detracts from its impact--he was just conceptually a bit soft, undefined. I love him, beautiful guitarist, but I think his career boils down into a fairly small set of tunes. Maybe someone could compile the later stuff to some effect.