Bobby Womack

Wilson Pickett, playing to diminishing audiences, has been touting himself as "the last of the
great soul men" -- as if he were a member of some soon-to-be extinct species. Pickett's
original breed of soul is, in fact, nearly gone. He has been overtaken by people with
greater versatility and sophistication, but less grandeur -- men like his former guitarist
Bobby Womack. Womack was not only Pickett's guitarist. He was deeply involve... More >