Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man In The Universe flac album

The Bravest Man in the Universe is the twenty-seventh and final studio album by the American soul artist Bobby Womack. Released in June 8, 2012, it was his first studio album since 2000 and his first album of original material since 1994's Resurrection. It was produced by Damon Albarn and Richard Russell and released on the UK-based XL Recordings label. The Bravest Man in the Universe is the final album to be released in Womack's lifetime, as The Best Is Yet to Come will be released posthumously.

The Bravest Man in the Universe. The album features guest vocalist Lana Del Rey on the song, Dayglo Reflection. Bobby Womack's musical career has spanned 50+ years during which time he has written songs recorded by The Rolling Stones, Wilson Pickett, Janis Joplin (to name a few) and has played on sessions for Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Dusty Springfield and more. Nicknamed The Preacher and The Poet, Bobby Womack's work has topped the singles charts many times over and his collaborations with artists from Patti Labelle to Mos Def to Gorillaz to The Rolling Stones showcase a legend who has and continues.

Written-By – Bobby Womack (tracks: A1, A2, A4, A5, B2 to B6), Damon Albarn (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B2 to B6), Elizabeth Grant (tracks: A4), Gil Scott-Heron (tracks: B1), Harold Payne (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B2 to B6), Jim Ford (tracks: A5), Richard. Russell (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B2 to B6), Sam Cooke (tracks: A4), Traditional (tracks: A3, B6).

The results are startling, setting Womack’s distinctive voice against stark electro backings and thunderous beats. A sense of stoical endurance is the trademark of the album, whose opening line The bravest man in the universe is he who has forgiven birth seems to acknowledge that, in the Buddha’s words, ‘all life is suffering’ (because of human imperfection). Sweet Baby Mine offers more heartache, as Womack tortures himself with the questions that haunts all forlorn lovers – What happened to those good times? – amid a swirling, echoing production.

For producer Richard Russell, The Bravest Man in the Universe follows Gil Scott-Heron's I'm New Here, another duet with a '70s black music icon. But while the late Scott-Heron met Russell while in jail on drug charges, resulting in an unpleasantly bleak affair, Womack made this album after 2010's "Stylo," his hit single with Damon Albarn and Gorillaz. Womack got clean years ago, and his optimism burns brightly on "Love Is Gonna Lift You Up" and "Deep River.

Damon Albarn enlisted Bobby Womack to sing on Gorillaz's 2010 album Plastic Beach, pushing the great soul singer back into action after a prolonged period of silence. Remarkably, the unlikely pair struck up a friendship, a partnership that led to 2012's The Bravest Man in the Universe, Womack's first album in 13 years. Signing with Richard Russell's XL Records, Womack collaborated with his longtime cohort Harold Payne, Albarn, and Russell on this ghostly, skeletal soul collection, each man bringing his own signatures to the table.

Album · 2012 · 15 Songs. Anthology: Bobby Womack. Midnight Mover: The Bobby Womack Story. At Home In Muscle Shoals.