Monday, March 28th
sweet soul music
Do you feel me?
—Bobby Womack (1944-2014)
Bobby Womack, live, England (Glastonbury Festival), 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Garfield Park Conservatory)
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
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2014
Sunday, November 9th
That gospel feeling is in all of this music.
—Solomon Burke
Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music, Episode 2: Sam Cooke, with Mavis Staples, Bobby Womack, Solomon Burke, Ben E. King, et al., BBC, 2005
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), The Plough and the Song, 1946
2014
Sunday, June 29th
passings
Bobby Womack, singer, songwriter, guitarist, March 4, 1944-June 27, 2014
The Womack Brothers (featuring Bobby, then 17, on lead vocals), “Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray,” 1961
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lagniappe
art beat
William Eggleston (1939-)
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random thoughts
We’re as rich as we are receptive.
2012
Sunday, 10/14/12
Bobby testifies.
The Womack Brothers (with Bobby, then 17, on lead vocal), “Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray” (SAR Records [Sam Cooke’s label]; rec. 6/28/1961, Universal Recording Studios, Chicago)
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The next year, as the Valentinos, they recorded this.
The Valentinos (with Bobby on lead vocal), “Lookin’ For A Love” (SAR Records, 1962)
2012
Friday, 10/12/12
Singers who come out of gospel bring something to everything they touch—conviction.
Bobby Womack, live (Later . . . with Jules Holland, BBC), 10/2 & 5/12
“Please Forgive My Heart” (B. Womack & R. Russell)
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“The Bravest Man in the Universe” (B. Womack & R. Russell)
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lagniappe
reading table
my home village
even behind the outhouse
pure water gushes—Kobayashi Issa, 1812 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2012
Saturday, 7/7/12
basement jukebox
The Valentinos (feat. Bobby Womack), “Lookin’ For A Love,” 1962
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Billy Stewart, “Sitting In The Park,” 1965
