Bobby Womack The Bravest Man In The Universe is

Bobby Womack?s first album of original material in eighteen years. It was co-produced by Damon Albarn and XL Recordings? Richard Russell and recorded in three main sessions between October and December 2011; two were in Damon?s Studio 13 in West London, and the other was in New York?s Manhattan Center, which is situated above the legendary Hammerstein Ballroom, with a few extra sessions in London at the XL Studio and Richard?s own home studio. All ten tracks are co-written by the three plus Bobby?s longtime songwriting partner Harold Payne, except for radically rearranged spirituals "Deep River? and "Jubilee (Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around)?. There are striking vocal guest spots from Lana Del Rey on "Dayglo Reflection? and Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara on "Nothin' Can Save You?.

A man whose talent as a singer, guitarist and composer is matched only by his self-lacerating honesty, Womack dismisses three albums he made at the turn of the millennium (a live album, a gospel album and a Christmas album) and sees his first album for XL Recordings as the first, real Bobby Womack..