Bobby Womack Album: «Midnight Mover: The Bobby Womack Collection»

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Customers rating: (4.7 of 5)
Title:Midnight Mover: The Bobby Womack Collection
Release date:1993-11-02
Type:Audio CD
Label:EMI / Minit / Liberty
UPC:724382767329

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Track listing

1 - 1 I'm A Midnight Mover2:01
1 - 2Broadway Walk
1 - 3 What Is This?img 2:34
1 - 4 I'm In Loveimg 2:40
1 - 5 Somebody Specialimg 3:02
1 - 6What You Gonna Do (When Your Love Is Gone)
1 - 7 How I Miss You Babyimg 3:18
1 - 8 More Than I Can Standimg 2:52
1 - 9I Can't Take It Like A Man
1 - 10Laughing and Clowning (Live)
1 - 11It's Gonna Rain2:19
1 - 12Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
1 - 13 I Left My Heart In San Franciscoimg 2:19
1 - 14Arkansas State Prison
1 - 15Come L'amore
1 - 16 (If You Don't Want My Love) Give It Back Bobby Womack, Ron Wood, Ian McLagan, Andy Newmark, Willie Weeks and Jean Rouselleimg 2:56
1 - 17 That's The Way I Feel About Chaimg 5:07
1 - 18 Communication4:44
1 - 19 I Can Understand Itimg 6:43
1 - 20 Woman's Gotta Have Itimg 3:34
1 - 21Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)
1 - 22 Harry Hippieimg 3:49
1 - 23The Preacher/More Than I Can Stand
2 - 1 Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Outimg 3:20
2 - 2Across 110th Street (From Across 110TH Street)
2 - 3 Fact of Life/He'll Be There When the Sun Goes Downimg 6:17
2 - 4 I'm Through (Trying to Prove My Love to You)img 3:46
2 - 5 If You Can't Give Her Love (Give Her Up)img 2:49
2 - 6Holdin' On To My Baby's Love
2 - 7 That's Heaven to Meimg 2:54
2 - 8 Lookin' for a Love Muscle Shoals Horn Section and Bobby Womack2:35
2 - 9I Don't Wanna Be Hurt By Ya Again
2 - 10 You're Welcome, Stop on Byimg 3:45
2 - 11Interlude #1/I Don't Know
2 - 12 (If You Want My Love) Put Something Down On Itimg 3:47
2 - 13 Check It Out3:49
2 - 14 It's All Over Nowimg 3:18
2 - 15Tarnished Rings
2 - 16 Trust In Meimg 3:55
2 - 17Everything's Gonna Be Alright7:04
2 - 18 Where There's A Will, There's A Wayimg 6:17
2 - 19Love Ain't Something You Can Get For Free
2 - 20 Daylightimg 3:33
2 - 21Jealous Love

Review - Amazon.com

Bobby Womack's career is a book with many chapters; neither a bestseller nor a literary classic, it is nonetheless a consistently good read. The two-CD set, The Midnight Mover: The Bobby Womack Collection, only covers the middle chapters of that story, but those years (1968-76) brought the singer-guitarist-songwriter-producer his only Top 40 pop hits: "That's the Way I Feel About Cha," "Harry Hippie," "Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out," and "Lookin' for a Love." Womack is better known today for songs that were recorded by others: "It's All Over Now" by the Rolling Stones, "Woman's Gotta Have It" by the Neville Brothers, "I'm in Love" by Aretha Franklin, and 17 different songs by Wilson Pickett, most notably "I'm a Midnight Mover." All these recordings are superior to Womack's own versions (he is a robust gospel-soul singer but curiously lacking in understatement or big climaxes), but they are indicative of Womack's knack for telling a story to a very funky beat. All 8 of the above songs are included among the 44 tracks on the new anthology. What's missing from this anthology are the early chapters in Womack's story and the later chapters (his brilliant post-cocaine comeback albums, 1981's The Poet and 1984's The Poet II, his collaborations with Patti LaBelle and Wilton Felder, and his 1986 reunion with Moman, Womagic, the best album of his career). The Midnight Mover is the kind of anthology you shouldn't bother with until you have Otis Redding, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Curtis Mayfield, and Aretha Franklin covered. But if you have plenty of their recordings and still hunger for more classic R&B, Bobby Womack is a good next move. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer review

Amazon user

June 16, 1998

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

- A must-have for every serious music lover

Most forgotten soul man of all time. This 44 track double CD covers his best work. Favorit track: Track 10 of CD2: You're Welcome, Stop On By (also covered by Rufus with Chaka Khan: Live Stompin' at The Savoy). Buy this record!!

Customer review

Amazon user

January 22, 2000

- All of his best - plus a few others

Womack is one of the most criminally forgotten soul men and listening to this collection will make that fact even more puzzling. He deserves far more attention than he's ever received, both from critics and the public.

That said, this two-CD set casts a wide net and ends up capturing more than just his best work: mediocre and even ill-advised choices (like "Sweet Caroline" - Womack covering Neil Diamond is as lackluster in reality as it sounds in theory) are in the minority for sure, but they do pop up here and there. They can be intrusive, but this is still an enjoyable set.

However, the Womack collection put out by EMI as part of its Heart of Soul Series in 1996 offers a briefer, but more finely distilled best-of. All the highpoints are there, plus an acoustic version of "Across 110th Street" (alongside the familiar version) that is excellent and not available on "Midnight Mover." That disk is also more interested in mood than chronology; its opening one-two punch of "Daylight" and "I Can't Understand It" (both of which are also here, of course) is irresistible. The title is "The Soul of Bobby Womack: Stop On By" and since I don't see it listed at Amazon, it may be hard to find. Well worth it, though.

Customer review

A customer "mistermaxxx" (usa)

June 15, 2000

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

- This Brother is BADD!

Bobby Womack is a Great Musical Genius that hasn't gotten his Fair Due.as a Writer,Producer,Instrumentalist&Vocalist MR.WOmack is One Of The Baddest Artists ever Too Rock A Studio.The Brother has alot of Soul.Very Essential Overview.