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Bobby Womack's new album, The Bravest Man in the Universe,
comes out June 12.
Courtesy of the artist
First Listen: Bobby Womack, 'The Bravest Man In The Universe'
NPR
June 03, 2012 10:30 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/2012/06/03/
154085803/first-listen-bobby-womack-the-bravest-man-in-the-universe
CNN's Nischelle Turner
takes
a look back at the life of famed soul singer and composer Bobby Womack.
YouTube > CNN
28 June 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAMlZEvDcM
Bobby Dwayne Womack 1944-2014
Bobby Womack (...) spanned
the American soul
music era,
touring as a gospel singer
in the 1950s,
playing guitar in Sam Cooke’s
backup band in
the early ’60s,
writing hit songs
recorded by Wilson Pickett
and
the Rolling Stones
and composing music
that broke onto the pop
charts
(...)
Mr. Womack,
nicknamed the Preacher
for his authoritative,
church-trained voice
and the way he introduced songs
with long
discourses on life,
never had the million-record
success of
contemporaries
like Pickett, Marvin Gaye,
Al Green and Otis
Redding.
His sandpaper vocal style
made him more
popular
in England,
where audiences revere
what they consider
authentic traditional
American music,
than in the United States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/28/
arts/music/bobby-womack-songwriter-and-musician-dies-at-70.html
Bobby Womack's career
began in his teens
in Cleveland, Ohio,
when Sam Cooke
mentored his
family band,
the Valentinos.
In 1964 he wrote
It's All
Over Now,
which became
the Rolling Stones'
first No 1.
He then played guitar
on
some
of the next decade's
greatest records,
including
Dusty
Springfield's
Dusty In Memphis,
Aretha Franklin's Lady Soul,
and Sly and the Family
Stone's
There's a Riot Goin' On.
Womack's solo career
flourished in the 1970s
thanks to his soundtrack
to
the blaxploitation film
Across 110th Street.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/25/bobby-womack-soundtrack-of-my-life
http://www.npr.org/artists/92735086/bobby-womack
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/
arts/music/barbara-campbell-cooke-dead.html
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/11/
330713212/fresh-air-remembers-soul-singer-and-songwriter-bobby-womack
http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2014/jun/28/
bobby-womack-soul-singer-life-in-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/29/
bobby-womack-barney-hoskyns-last-soul-men
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/28/
arts/music/bobby-womack-songwriter-and-musician-dies-at-70.html
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/28/
bobby-womack-dies-aged-70
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/06/27/
326298829/soul-singer-bobby-womack-dies-at-70
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/nov/25/
bobby-womack-soundtrack-of-my-life
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/24/
163557182/bobby-womack-on-world-cafe
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/01/
156010050/bobby-womack-god-must-still-have-a-purpose-for-me
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/01/
156010050/bobby-womack-god-must-still-have-a-purpose-for-me
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/01/
156082030/synthetic-drugs-the-women-of-watergate-and-bobby-womack
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/06/29/
156017675/the-making-of-bobby-womacks-bravest-man
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/03/
154085803/first-listen-bobby-womack-the-bravest-man-in-the-universe
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102704598
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