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
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)
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)
basement jukebox
The Valentinos (feat. Bobby Womack), “Lookin’ For A Love,” 1962
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Billy Stewart, “Sitting In The Park,” 1965