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Womack and Womack

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Womack & Womack: Love Wars (Elektra 96-0293-1)

Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 28 January 1984

WHEN BACKROOM boys decide it's time they had some of the limelight for themselves, the results are unpredictable to say the least. Cecil and Linda ...

Womack and Womack: Love Wars (WEA)

Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 11 February 1984

"ABSENCE MAKES the heart grow fonder", sing Cecil (brother of Bobby) and Linda (daughter of Sam Cooke) at the start of their epic 'Love Wars' ...

Womack & Womack: Love Wars (Elektra)

Review by James Hunter, Record, March 1984

WITH A sassy authority too gritty to be bitchy, too determined to be shrill, Linda Womack lithely barks out the phrase "I can't understand that" ...

Womack and Womack: Love Warriors

Interview by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 17 March 1984

IT SHOULD really be no surprise that Cecil and Linda Womack's Love Wars LP is the most compulsive and acclaimed soul outing since the Marvin ...

Womack & Womack: Love Wars (Elektra 60293)

Review by Mitchell Cohen, High Fidelity, May 1984

THE MEN and women that Cecil and Linda Womack portray on Love Wars almost never want the same thing at the same time which makes ...

Womack & Womack: Soul Dispatches & Gospel Truths From The Funky Front Of Love Wars

Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, May 1984

CECIL AND Linda Womack are sitting on a couch in their home near Philadelphia while Micah, their youngest, plays with a pull-toy on the floor. ...

The Producers: Stewart Levine

Interview by Chas de Whalley, International Musician & Recording World, December 1984

LET'S START with a riddle? How do you stop an American talking? ...

Womack & Womack: Radio M.U.S.C. Man (Elektra)

Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 15 June 1985

YOU'LL BE hearing a lot of this on the wireless in the coming weeks if the Womack scam pays off. Radio M.U.S.C. Man "salutes all ...

Womack & Womack: No more Love Wars

Interview by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 29 June 1985

THE MR AND MRS OF SOUL DON'T LIKE REHASHING OLD MATERIAL. BUT THEY DO LIKE HAVING HITS. PAUL SEXTON RECONCILES THEIR DILEMMA ...

Bobby Womack: Someday We'll All Be Free (Beverly Glen); Womack & Womack: Radio M.U.S.C. Man (Elektra)

Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, September 1985

GREAT SINGING is its own reward, and that's particularly true of the Womacks, Bobby, Cecil and Linda. Their voices carry not only the experience of ...

Womack & Womack: Dominion, London

Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 17 September 1985

Songs written with soul ...

Soul Wars: Womack And Womack: The Dominion, London

Live Review by Frank Owen, Melody Maker, 21 September 1985

TEXTURING INTIMACIES with the grain of their extraordinary, conflicting voices, Womack And Womack have almost singlehandedly rescued the dramas and gestures of love from the ...

Womack and Womack: It's A Family Affair

Interview by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 21 September 1985

The brotherhood lives on with Womack & Womack. Hugh Fielder finds it all very relative. ...

Womack and Womack: Dominion Theatre, London

Live Review by Hugh Fielder, Sounds, 28 September 1985

COINCIDENCE? WHILE searching around for my gig notes (it's been that kind of week) I turned up some notes on Womack and Womack's previous London ...

Womack and Womack: Radio M.U.S.C. Man (Elektra)

Review by John Swenson, Spin, October 1985

THE WOMACK FAMILY is giving the Jacksons a run for their money. Radio M.U.S.C. Man is, in fact, the most impressive musical reunion since the ...

Womack and Womack (and Womack): Bring The Family Back

Profile and Interview by David Toop, The Face, December 1985

BORN IN THE SOUL YEARS, SURVIVING THE LEAN YEARS, THE WOMACK FAMILY HAVE PUT A LIFETIME'S EMOTIONS INTO THEIR MUSIC. BUT CECIL AND LINDA WOMACK ...

Bobby Womack: So Many Rivers (MCA); Someday We'll All Be Free (Beverly Glen); Womack and Womack: Radio M.U.S.C. Man (Elektra)

Review by Davitt Sigerson, Rolling Stone, 5 December 1985

THESE THREE records from the illustrious Womack clan — two from Bobby and one from brother Cecil and wife Linda (daughter of Sam Cooke and ...

Womack & Womack: Keeping It All In The Family

Interview by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 8 November 1986

The next Womack and Womack LP is produced by the pair themselves, and features Cecil's three brothers and his ex wife (Mary Wells). Family ties? ...

Womack & Womack: Womack Inc. (U.K. Branch)

Interview by Roger St. Pierre, Blues & Soul, 18 November 1986

Womack & Womack tell B&S about their future plans In America and Britain as residents ...

Womack And Womack: Starbright (Manhattan)

Review by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 10 January 1987

Rhyming Couplets ...

Womack & Womack, The Valentinos: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 24 January 1987

WOMACK AND WOMACK AND WOMACK ...

Womack & Womack: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 16 May 1989

A COMFORTABLE musical gelling on vinyl is one thing, but a reproduction on the live stage is quite another. ...

Womack & Womack: Family Spirit

Review by Lucy O'Brien, Select, April 1991

WHEN THE Womacks play live there's usually a dog, a cat, several children and a mouth organ on stage. They're the original hippy couple, spreading ...

Womack & Womack: Family Spirit (Arista 261356)

Review by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 14 May 1991

'Family Spirit'; 'Uptown'; 'Refusal'; 'Living In A Different World'; 'United (In Paradise)'; 'My Dear (The Letter)'; 'Blue Jean Baby'; 'Danceworld'; 'Keep On Climbing'; 'Lonely Island'. ...

Womack And Womack: Family Spirit (RCA/BMG)

Review by Robert Gordon, L.A. Weekly, 27 June 1991

Shiver and Shake: Womack & Womack's family entertainment ...

House of Zekkariyas: Womack and Womack Transformation to the House of Zekkariyas (Warner Brothers 4-450-75)

Review by Amy Linden, The New York Times, 28 March 1993

THE SINGING group House of Zekkariyas (formerly known as Womack and Womack) has a soul pedigree that runs river deep. Linda Womack is the daughter ...

see also Cecil Womack

see also Valentinos, The

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