This is some old-school soul for you. A friend of once said that you ought to walk like you’ve got someplace you’ve gotta be. Bobby Womack’s classic Across 110th Street is the song for that occasion.

Legendary R&B singer Bobby Womack has died. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ACROSS 110th STREET") BOBBY WOMACK: (Singing) I was the third brother of five doing whatever I had to do to survive. CORNISH: Womack ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up According to the Associated Press, soul singer Bobby Womack has ...

The year 1971 taught Hollywood that (1) Harlem could win hearts and (2) the grittiest New York cop movies could win Oscars (see Shaft and The French Connection, respectively). In the next half-decade, ...

Bobby Womack sang with soul, played guitar like a bluesman and wrote R&B like a poet. And he lived life in a manner that seemed void of concern for public opinion. Sadly, the music stopped forever ...

On his 1972 hit “Across 110th Street" soul legend Bobby Womack sings, “You've got to be strong if you want to survive." Originally penned for the blaxploitation film of the same name, the track was ...

It’s a wonder Womack is still performing at all. Earlier this year he was treated for pneumonia and a colonic tumour, and enduring frailty was suggested by the bar stool he perched on for much of the ...

Robert Dwayne Womack (born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on March 4, 1944, died June 27, 2014), was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Working in the soul and R&B genres, he achieved his greatest ...

Soul music legend Bobby Womack has died at age 70. We remember him in words and music. Remembering Bobby Womack, A Voice Of Soul AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Legendary R&B singer Bobby Womack has died.

Documentary about singer-songwriter Bobby Womack, from his early gospel days of the 1950s through soul stardom in the 70s to a career Indian summer with Gorillaz and Damon Albarn.