Womack’s title track for a 1972 blaxploitation movie got a shot of adrenalin when it appeared on the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. The rattlesnake tambourine in the opening bars ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about Bobby Womack’s voice that hits you in the soul before you even realize what he’s saying. Maybe it’s the grit, maybe it’s the honesty—but whatever it is, it ...
Bobby Womack’s death is a huge loss. There are other soul singers and songwriters who are ranked higher in the pantheon because they’re considered auteurs: Marvin Gaye, obviously, and Curtis Mayfield, ...
He was signed by Sam Cooke and penned the Rolling Stones’ first number one hit, It’s All Over Now, in 1964. Chaka Khan, Janis Joplin, Wilson Pickett and George Benson also recorded his songs, and he ...