tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post3948416509422989634..comments2024-03-02T07:40:22.786+03:00Comments on Only Solitaire blog: Bobby Womack: The Bravest Man In The UniverseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-48825576784491421062015-06-19T19:45:38.490+03:002015-06-19T19:45:38.490+03:00On youtube there is a version of Love is gonna lif...On youtube there is a version of Love is gonna lift you up performed by BW & DA on Later with Jools Holland which is well worth watching. Played with live instrumetns (well piano anyway). The live element really gives something to the song which brings it to life in a way that I think the album version does not. <br />Perhaps the live element, having an audience there with them, (including of course, an audience of musicians, given the setting) gives a fusion to the contrasting elements of the song rather than the jarring contrast (Womack versus the machines) that is present on the album?<br />I was due to see Bobby Womack live (In Dublin 3rd on a bill with Tom Jones & Van Morrison) supporting the album and was very interested in seeing more of the album in a live setting. Alas, due to illness (which unfortunately he succumbed to shortly after - your phrase "..a brand new Bobby Womack album, his first and, so far, only one in the 21st century." struck a somber note as I read it- he cancelled the performance (though Sinead O'Connor did perform instead).<br /><br />One point in relation to the juxtaposition of styles/era's/generations involved in this collaboration, I think that has become something of a trend and was certainly happening elsewhere at the time... I call to mind Dr. Johns excellent album Locked Down, produced by Dan Auerbach as an example... and I know there are other examples, but alas the grey matter has been dimmed a little by the water of life!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com