Still no word on the new date for Bobby Womack‘s free Central Park show with Willis Earl Beal that was supposed to go down this Thursday (6/7) but was postponed. However, Bobby just announced a paid ...

Legendary R&B singer Bobby Womack has died. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ACROSS 110th STREET") BOBBY WOMACK: (Singing) I was the third brother of five doing whatever I had to do to survive. CORNISH: Womack ...

With a familial musical catalog that includes hits like Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” Womack & Womack’s “Teardrops,” and Bobby Womack’s “If You Think You’re Lonely Now,” one would expect the ...

On his 1972 hit “Across 110th Street" soul legend Bobby Womack sings, “You've got to be strong if you want to survive." Originally penned for the blaxploitation film of the same name, the track was ...

Bobby Womack regrets never giving late soul icon Wilson Pickett the credit he deserved for helping him land his big break. The Mustang Sally hitmaker discovered the songwriter in the late 1960s, and ...

Bobby Womack, the colorful and highly influential R&B singer/songwriter revered by artists ranging from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, has died. He was 70. Womack was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s ...

Bobby Womack sang with soul, played guitar like a bluesman and wrote R&B like a poet. And he lived life in a manner that seemed void of concern for public opinion. Sadly, the music stopped forever ...

The album will be the follow-up to his 27th album The Bravest Man in the Universe, released in 2012, which featured a collaboration with Damon Albarn. Womack has continued to record, write and tour ...

Womack first found success as a member of his family's group The Valentinos, which turned from gospel music to more traditional R&B to find success in the 1960s. He later worked as Sam Cooke's ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Bobby Womack has been frustrated. He s relaunching his career after what amounts to a two-decade, self-imposed exile and he can t get his doctor to cooperate. There s so much to do, ...