Ghosts speak between the beats on The Bravest Man in the Universe, but Bobby Womack is not one of them. His voice — a vehicle for some of soul music’s most memorable midnight pleas and morning cock crows — could never pass for dead, even if it’s now scuff-marked. That scrappy instrument galvanizes this collaboration [...]
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