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Bobby Womack
Midnight Mover The Bobby Womack Collection



Label: EMI Records USA
Released: 1993
Source: Original CD
Size Torrent: 939 MB
Format: FLAC





Bobby Womack's career is a book with many chapters; neither a bestseller nor a literary classic, it is nonetheless a consistently good read. The two-CD set, The Midnight Mover: The Bobby Womack Collection, only covers the middle chapters of that story, but those years (1968-76) brought the singer-guitarist-songwriter-producer his only Top 40 pop hits: "That's the Way I Feel About Cha," "Harry Hippie," "Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out," and "Lookin' for a Love." Womack is better known today for songs that were recorded by others: "It's All Over Now" by the Rolling Stones, "Woman's Gotta Have It" by the Neville Brothers, "I'm in Love" by Aretha Franklin, and 17 different songs by Wilson Pickett, most notably "I'm a Midnight Mover." All these recordings are superior to Womack's own versions (he is a robust gospel-soul singer but curiously lacking in understatement or big climaxes), but they are indicative of Womack's knack for telling a story to a very funky beat. All 8 of the above songs are included among the 44 tracks on the new anthology. What's missing from this anthology are the early chapters in Womack's story and the later chapters (his brilliant post-cocaine comeback albums, 1981's The Poet and 1984's The Poet II, his collaborations with Patti LaBelle and Wilton Felder, and his 1986 reunion with Moman, Womagic, the best album of his career). The Midnight Mover is the kind of anthology you shouldn't bother with until you have Otis Redding, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Curtis Mayfield, and Aretha Franklin covered. But if you have plenty of their recordings and still hunger for more classic R&B, Bobby Womack is a good next move.






Personnel

The Pointer Sisters (Background vocals) ,
Bill Withers (Background vocals),
Bobby Womack (Guitar, percussion, vocals),
Herbie Hancock (Keyboards),
Chuck Rainey (Bass),
Pete Carr (Guitar),
Bill Summers (Percussion),
John Blair (Strings),
Peace (Horn),
David Foster (Keyboards),
Jim Keltner (Drums),
Roger Dollarhide (Keyboards),
Sneaky Pete Kleinow (Guitar),
Tippy Armstrong (Guitar),
Bobby Babies (Background vocals),
Barry Beckett (Keyboards),
Hayword Bishop (Percussion,drums),
Bill Braun (Percussion, drums),
Harrison Calloway (Horn),
Gene Chrisman (Drums),
Lackie Clark (Guitar),
Tommy Cogbill (Bass),
Cosme Daeguero (Percussion),
Ronnie Eades (Horn),
Bobby Emmons (Keyboards),
Charles Fullilve (Guitar),
James Gadson (Drums),
Glen Goins (Guitar),
Pam Grier (Background vocals),
Rene Hall (Strings),
Patrice Holloway (Background vocals),
Roger Hawkins (Percussion, drums),
David Hood (Bass),
Clayton Ivey (Keyboards),
Jimmy Johnson (Guitar),
Louis Johnson (Bass),
Ken Khristian (Guitar),
Joe Lala (Percussion),
Linda Lawrence (Background vocals),
Mike Leech (Bass),
Bill Lordan (Drums),
Dale Quillen (Horn),
Larry "Rhino" Rheinhart (Guitar),
Soko Richardson (Drums),
Robert Robertie (Drums),
Julia Tillman Waters (Background vocals),
Ron Selico (Drums),
Janice Singleton (Background vocals),
Paul Stallworth (Bass),
Ivory Stone (Background vocals),
Sundry (Background vocals),
Truman Thomas (Keyboards),
Harvey Thompson (Horn),
The Valentinos (Background vocals),
Wah Wah Watson (Guitar),
Willie Weeks (Bass),
Gregory White (Background vocals),
Lorna Willard (Background vocals),
Bobby Woods (Keyboards),
Reggie Young (Guitar),
Larry Zack (Drums),
William D. "Smitty" Smith (Keyboards),
Leon Ware (Keyboards), Sonny Burke (Drums),
Sonny Burke (Keyboards),
Julia Tilman (Background vocals),
Charles Fullilove (Guitar),
Sundray (Background vocals),
Carmichael Singers (Background vocals),
David Turner (Guitar).


Track Listing


CD One

01. I'm A Midnight Mover
02. Broadway Walk
03. What Is This
04. I'm In Love
05. Somebody Special
06. What You Gonna Do (When Your Love Is Gone)
07. How I Miss You Baby
08. More Than I Can Stand
09. I Can't Take It Like A Man
10. Laughing And Clowning (Live) (with Percy Mayfield)
11. It's Gonna Rain
12. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
13. I Left My Heart In San Francisco
14. Arkansas State Prison
15. Come L'Amore
16. (If You Don't Want My Love) Give It Back
17. That's The Way I Feel About 'Cha (with Peace)
18. Communication
19. I Can Understand It
20. Woman's Gotta Have It
21. Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed so Good)
22. Harry Hippie (with Peace)
23. The Preacher / More Than I Can Stand (Live)


CD Two

01. Nobody Wants You When You're Down And Out
02. Across 110th Street
03. Fact Of Life / He'll Be There When The Sun Goes Down
04. I'm Through Trying To Prove My Love To You
05. If You Can't Give Her Love, Give Her Up
06. Holdin' On To My Baby's Love
07. That's Heaven To Me
08. Lookin' For A Love
09. I Don't Wanna Be Hurt By Ya Again
10. You're Welcome, Stop On By
11. Interlude #1 / I Don't Know
12. (If You Want My Love) Put Something Down On It
13. Check It Out
14. It's All Over Now (with Bill Withers)
15. Tarnished Rings
16. Trust In Me
17. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
18. Where There's A Will, There's A Way
19. Love Ain't Something You Can Get For Free
20. Daylight
21. Jealous Love