Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack – Understanding (1972/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:43 minutes | 822 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Right Stuff

Understanding is the fourth studio album by American musician Bobby Womack. The album was released on March 30, 1972, by United Artists Records. Womack recorded Understanding in Memphis, Tennessee at American Sound Studio and in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. At Muscle Shoals, he utilized top session players, including drummer Roger Hawkins, guitarists Jimmy Johnson and Tippy Armstrong, bassist David Hood and keyboardist Barry Beckett.

The album reached No. 43 on the Billboard pop albums chart and No. 7 on the R&B albums chart. One of the key songs from the album, “I Can Understand It”, has become a soul classic and was a major hit for New Birth the following year. The song was also covered by Womack’s brothers The Valentinos (Curtis, Harry and Friendly, Jr.) with production from Bobby. The brothers sing background on the original version. The album version of “I Can Understand It” became a huge club hit in the northeast underground soul and gay clubs prior to the birth of disco. At that time, DJs skillfully played the cut directly from the album. New York City record stores began selling the album briskly when they noticed a highly diverse customer base buying Womack’s music.

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Bobby Womack – The Womack “Live” (1970/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:20 minutes | 821 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

One of the great live R&B albums of the ’60s, The Womack Live was recorded at The California Club in LA, a key stop on the chitlin’ circuit. This album truly captures the vitality of the crowd as Cooke performs a setlist of beloved originals and classic covers, with an appearance from Percy Mayfield!

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Bobby Womack – Safety Zone (1975/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:39 minutes | 977 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

Safety Zone is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bobby Womack. The album was released on October 27, 1975, by United Artists Records. The album debuted at number 147 on the Billboard 200.

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Bobby Womack – My Prescription (1970/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:45 minutes | 738 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

My Prescription is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bobby Womack. The album was released in February 1970, by Minit Records. It was arranged by Bobby Womack, Glen Spreen and Mike Leech. The cover photography was by Herb Kravitz.

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Bobby Womack – Lookin’ For A Love Again (1974/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:16 minutes | 722 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

Lookin’ for a Love Again is the sixth studio album by American musician Bobby Womack. The album was released on January 11, 1974, by United Artists Records. The album reached #85 on the Billboard U.S. Pop Charts and #5 on the Billboard R&B Charts. It included the hit single “Lookin’ for a Love”, which charted No. 1 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and #10 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Harry Womack and his other brothers are featured singing background vocals on the album, as they had with previous Bobby releases, and they re-sang their original 1962 hit when they were The Valentinos. Although Bobby had rehearsed the song, he wasn’t going to feature it, but eventually went ahead at the insistence of one of his musicians.

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Bobby Womack – I Don’t Know What The World Is Coming To (1975/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:43 minutes | 901 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

I Don’t Know What the World Is Coming To is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bobby Womack. The album was released on March 28, 1975, by United Artists Records. The album debuted at number 126 on the Billboard 200.

In 1978 British rock singer Rod Stewart lifted the melody from “(If You Want My Love) Put Something Down On It” for his hit song “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”

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Bobby Womack – Fly Me To The Moon (1969/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:01 minutes | 704 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

Fly Me to the Moon is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Bobby Womack. The album was released in January 1969, by Minit Records.

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Bobby Womack – Facts Of Life (1973/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:51 minutes | 747 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Right Stuff

Facts of Life is the fifth studio album by American musician Bobby Womack. The album was released on June 8, 1973, by United Artists Records. The album raced to No. 6 on the US Billboard R&B chart. It also charted at No. 37 on the Billboard Pop chart. The album included the hit single “Nobody Wants You When You’re Down and Out” (which charted No. 2 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart).Recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

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Bobby Womack – Communication (1971/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:41 minutes | 810 MB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Right Stuff

Communication is the third studio album by American musician Bobby Womack. The album was released on September 15, 1971, by United Artists Records. It reached No. 5 on the Billboard R&B chart and No. 20 on the Billboard Jazz Chart in 1972. It included the hit single, “That’s The Way I Feel About Cha”, which charted at No. 2 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and No. 27 on the Billboard pop chart. The album became Womack’s breakthrough spawning the hit single “That’s The Way I Feel About Cha” and a favorite Womack album track, “(If You Don’t Want My Love) Give It Back”, which Womack recorded three times after the original, the first remake, a slower acoustic version, was issued on the soundtrack of the film, Across 110th Street, and an instrumental by J. J. Johnson’s band. The fourth time Womack recorded it was with Rolling Stones singer and musician Ron Wood. Womack recorded his own versions of James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain”, Ray Stevens’ “Everything Is Beautiful” and featured a spoken word monologue in his cover of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David standard, “(They Long To Be) Close to You”.

Actress Pam Grier and veteran singers Janice Singleton and Patrice Holloway sung background on the songs “Come l’Amore”, “Give It Back” and “Yield Not to Temptation”, a song Womack and his brothers, The Womack Brothers (later The Valentinos), recorded over a decade before with Bobby’s older brother Curtis singing lead. Ironically, Bobby’s brothers sing background with him on the remaining tracks. The album’s instrumental background was provided by the legendary Muscle Shoals team. The track “Come l’Amore” was “covered” by James Brown in his Lyn Collins duet single, “What My Baby Needs Now (Is A Little More Loving)” though the lyrics are different and in different keys.

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Bobby Womack – The Poet II (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:25 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Abkco Music & Records, Inc.

Newly remastered from the original tapes, this reissue features Patti LaBelle, George Benson and Wilton Felder. As with its predecessor, The Poet II found both commercial & critical success on both sides of the Atlantic with the UK’s NME naming it Best Album of 1984.

Among the album’s highlights are 3 duets with LaBelle including “Love Has Finally Come At Last” which was a presence on Billboard’s Hot Soul Singles chart for 17 weeks, ultimately rising to #3.
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Bobby Womack – The Poet (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:59 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Abkco Music & Records, Inc.

Newly remastered from the original tapes, 2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the initial release of The Poet, the Bobby Womack album that served to relaunch his career and established him as a renewed force to be reckoned with in R&B in the 1980s.
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