Bobby Womack is cancer-free and has new music out. Those are two wonderful things.
NPR is streaming “The Bravest Man in the Universe” right now, and we heartily encourage you to click over this very minute (or sometime this weekend, we guess, if you’re workplace is anti-streaming or something lame like that) and listen.
Here’s a snippet from our review, which will run in next week’s issue.
“The 68-year-old Cleveland native and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has never sounded so ingrained with the music as he does on The Bravest Man in the Universe, his first album of new material in almost 20 years. The focus is on Womack’s warm, worn voice, aged to a soulful rasp that gives songs like “Please Forgive My Heart” and the title tune the gravity and sense of history they call for.”
Oh, and there’s a duet with Lana Del Rey. Intrigued? You should be.
This article appears in Jun 6-12, 2012.
Bobby has some nice stuff on his new album… (Deep River, Nothing is Gonna Save you, Love is going To LIft You Up) but the production and the mixing on the Album is the PITS!
Bobby.. forget the phony deep electronic base that makes the car speakers boom… you don’t have to appeal to 18 somethngs…. you cant and they wont appreciate it.
Go back to your old school.. 110th St, Woman got to have it, If you think you are loney now… play the blues and mix it clean. Sing it and play it raw… and it will soar on its own.. you dont need top-40 remix DJ tricks to make it strike to the heart.. just the opposite. Give us the Bobby Womack we know and love…. that’s all we need.