Bobby Womack

It took me a while to get to Bobby Womack.



From jazz to soul/funk artists and groups, I was finding covers of Bobby Womack songs on the 1970s albums I'd get my hands on.

Both Rufus featuring Chaka Khan & Lou Donaldson had covers of You're Welcome, Stop on By on their minds to have recorded their versions of the song.

There was a record store on St. Laurent BLVD that allowed you to rent CD's from a very limited stock. There was a Bobby Womack compilation among their choices and after hearing the first song I literally and figuratively asked What Is This?

He had a vocal quality comparable to Wilson Pickett and James Brown but gruffer and rougher. Ironically on the subject, he wrote dozens of songs for Wilson Pickett in the mid to late 1960s.  



During one of my most bittersweet trips to New York a few years ago, I was roaming the streets and stumbled across a book/record store.  I didn't know they sold records until I walked in.  I bought the Bobby Womack Greatest Hits album up above among a handful of others.  I was disappointed it didn't have What Is This, Across 110th Street or It's All Over Now but was more than happy with the rest of the track listing.    



I bought The Soul Years CD  years ago around the time I started this rough draft about Bobby Womack.  

On June 28, 2014, I completed this draft on the day Womack died.  

R.I.P.