Damon Albarn was the special guest of Bobby Womack on yesterday’s (September 21st) Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as the influential multi-instrumentalist showcased a selection of tracks from the excellent ‘Bravest Man In The Universe‘ album. The record’s title-track, as well as ‘Jubilee‘, can be viewed below.
Albarn produced the LP, which featured in Live4ever’s Essential Listening summer lookback, along with XL Recordings’ Richard Russell.
“To say that 70’s soul icon and generational journeyman Bobby Womack has earned his status as a rarified legend is a point that is hardly worth mentioning,” our review reads.
“The man has been making music for literally half a century, beginning in 1954 with his run as a prepubescent member of Curtis Womack & the Womack Brothers and culminating with a 2009 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
Along the way he played guitar for Aretha Franklin, collaborated with Sly & the Family Stone, penned ballads for Janis Joplin, and still found time to pump out twenty-six studio albums and a slew of chart-topping singles all under his own name.”
