Bobby Womack – Communication (1971/2023) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Bobby Womack – Communication (1971/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:41 minutes | 810 MB | Genre: Soul
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Communication is the third studio album by American musician Bobby Womack. The album was released on September 15, 1971, by United Artists Records. It reached No. 5 on the Billboard R&B chart and No. 20 on the Billboard Jazz Chart in 1972. It included the hit single, “That’s The Way I Feel About Cha”, which charted at No. 2 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart and No. 27 on the Billboard pop chart. The album became Womack’s breakthrough spawning the hit single “That’s The Way I Feel About Cha” and a favorite Womack album track, “(If You Don’t Want My Love) Give It Back”, which Womack recorded three times after the original, the first remake, a slower acoustic version, was issued on the soundtrack of the film, Across 110th Street, and an instrumental by J. J. Johnson’s band. The fourth time Womack recorded it was with Rolling Stones singer and musician Ron Wood. Womack recorded his own versions of James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain”, Ray Stevens’ “Everything Is Beautiful” and featured a spoken word monologue in his cover of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David standard, “(They Long To Be) Close to You”.

Actress Pam Grier and veteran singers Janice Singleton and Patrice Holloway sung background on the songs “Come l’Amore”, “Give It Back” and “Yield Not to Temptation”, a song Womack and his brothers, The Womack Brothers (later The Valentinos), recorded over a decade before with Bobby’s older brother Curtis singing lead. Ironically, Bobby’s brothers sing background with him on the remaining tracks. The album’s instrumental background was provided by the legendary Muscle Shoals team. The track “Come l’Amore” was “covered” by James Brown in his Lyn Collins duet single, “What My Baby Needs Now (Is A Little More Loving)” though the lyrics are different and in different keys.One of Bobby Womack’s better albums, Communication is also one of the most stylistically varied. Several of the songs feature his trademark monologues, usually about love, although the one that precedes his version of the Carpenters’ “Close to You” is a diatribe against the music business (“Anything I can get into is commercial enough,” he declares). “Communication” is a spare, sinuous funk workout which demonstrates that Womack had been playing close attention to James Brown’s recent work, and “That’s the Way I Feel About Cha,” is a blues with strings (and was deservedly a hit). There are also a couple of unlikely covers — an almost singalong version of Ray Stevens’ syrupy ode to tolerance “Everything Is Beautiful,” and a melodramatic take on James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain.” – Rovi Staff

Tracklist:

1-1. Bobby Womack – Communication (04:42)
1-2. Bobby Womack – Come L’Amore (03:01)
1-3. Bobby Womack – Fire And Rain (04:27)
1-4. Bobby Womack – (If You Don’t Want My Love) Give It Back (02:50)
1-5. Bobby Womack – Monologue/(They Long To Be) Close To You (Medley) (09:28)
1-6. Bobby Womack – Everything Is Beautiful (02:57)
1-7. Bobby Womack – That’s The Way I Feel About ‘Cha (05:09)
1-8. Bobby Womack – Yield Not To Temptation (03:04)

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