Bobby Womack was the last great soul man standing ā the one whose music seethed with the intricacies of gospel, the blues, rock and funk. In his approach, his intimate knowledge of those styles was immediately evident.
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His voice was a kaleidoscope of raw emotion ā joy, pain, rage and sorrow. But at his grittiest, as he punctuated a song with spirited squawks and screams, horns blaring behind him and his guitar wailing, there was something soothing about the way Bobby sang. It was unmistakably the voice of a black man, a courageous one who was unblinkingly honest about the pain heād caused others and what he had suffered. He didnāt just lay his burdens down. He powered through them. The sadness underneath the bravado was unmistakable, but you didnāt feel sorry for Bobby. He didnāt want your pity, anyway.
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Donāt be fooled by the imitators. There was only one Bobby Womack, the last pure soul man standing.
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Now that the tears have finally stopped,Ā the disbelief has subsided and the skepticism has been addressed; the attempt to organize my thoughts in a fitting tribute to one of the greatest recording artists that America has produced, seems a little more possible.Ā Bobby WomackĀ the Soul singer who gave us āA Womanās Gotta Have Itā, āI Can Understand Itā, āIf You Think Your Lonely Nowā and āAcross 110th Streetā has died at the age of 70. At this time, no cause of death has been confirmed.
In my formative years ā like most Black folks my age ā I went to church often. Because the Civil Rights movement was organized and led, mostly, by preachers, the feeling of secularized Gospel singing had greater resonance. The church was the center of Black life, and it informed the politics and culture of the day. If youāre too young to remember, or you were old enough but unaware of the social and political fabric of the Black American community at the time: imagine this: A people engaged in a daily struggle for freedom to be educated in any fashion they chose, to live where they wanted, to vote for whomever they wanted to without fear, to earn a fair dayās pay in return for a full dayās work and equal protection by and under the law. And while all of this is going on, people trained in the church are singing of your hopes, joys, pain and triumphs in the deepest, purest and most emotional and inventive ways imaginable ā thatās why the call it Soul Music. Bobby Womack, in that time, in that way and in that genre, was a master.
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These tributes are becoming more and more frequent, and unfortunately, more and more necessary. It seems that the truly great contributors to Soul Music are passing on daily, and with each oneās death, the living witnesses to one of the great eras in American culture passes on.
Not many left. Ā Only Al Green, Aretha, Smokey and a few others are left.
Just think, over the course of the last decade, we've lost: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, James Brown, Etta James, Don Cornelius, Luther Vandross, Lou Rawls, Ray Charles, Barry White, Nina Simone, Levi Stubbs, Isaac Hayes, Marvin Junior, Bobbie Smith, Rick James, Bobby Bland, Donna Summer, Nick Ashford, Howard Tate, Solomon Burke, Ike Turner, Ali Ollie Woodson, Luther Ingram, Wilson Pickett, Gerald Levert, Bobby Womack, etc.
Tyrese sounded amazing on this Bobby Womack tribute. However, I think for such a legend like Bobby, it shouldāve been longer than an interlude to a commercial. Yāall canāt say it was last minute, cuz they put together a whole Michael Jackson themed show after his passing, so this one performance should have been done much better.
BET is a joke. Ā Black music royalty passes on and they only squeeze in a few seconds for a tribute.
Sad thing is most Black people don't even celebrate our own legends...until they are gone. Ā The average Black person wasn't checking for Bobby Womack when he was still breathing. Ā The average Black person isn't checking for Buddy Guy, BB King, etc.
But, let a non-Black person (especially white), take interest in their work and pay homage, it's all about cultural appropriation and the like.
Were it not for white interest, a lot of those kats would be starving and living a life in obscurity.
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Quite the contrary...and especially for kats who grew up fatherless. Ā A lot of dudes learn quite a bit about how to mistreat a woman by watching several dudes mistreat their mothers.
Kids are always watching...they are little sponges.
I didnāt mean to kill nobody ⦠I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord.ā - R.L Burnside. (On the murder he committed )
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Although hip-hop stars frequently sampled the soul music of his era, Mr. Womack refused most requests by others to use his recordings in their work, he told a British interviewer in 2004. Despite his well-publicized marital problems and struggles with drugs and alcohol, he said, he remained a gospel singer at heart.
āMe being from the old school, I would not say ābitchā on a record,ā he said. āI couldnāt face my mother if I did.ā