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Soul legend Bobby Womack, whose career stretched from an early association with SAR Records to a renaissance with the 2012 album ‘The Bravest Man In The Universe‘, has died at the age of 70. Related news:…

Our Essential Listening 2012 series concludes today with The Albums. From the ‘cohesion through experimentation’ of Tame Impala’s ‘Lonerism, through the ‘muscular power ballads, stirring, keyboard-led harmonies and call-and-response choruses’ that inform The Killers’ return with ‘Battle Born’, to the ‘sheer magnetism and unwavering belief’ which made ‘Blunderbuss’ such a…

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. Related…

Summer 2012. We’ve just had the wettest June on record, the festival season has been fractured by a series of cancellations, and album sales have fallen in their millions. And yet, for every music fan, there’ still reasons to be cheerful. The Stone Roses have just completed – with no…

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. The man has been making music for literally half a century, beginning in 1954 with his run as a prepubescent member of Curtis…