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CALLED IN America Greatest Hits, this album simply illustrates the unsatisfactory position that Bobby Womack finds himself in in England. Hitless. ...

Bobby Womack - I Don't Know What The World Is Coming To

Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, 26 July 1975

FROM 1964, FOLLOWING the death of his mentor Sam Cooke, to 1969, when he finally began to record under his own name, Bobby Womack was ...

Bobby Womack: The Poet II (Beverly Glen import)

Review by Richard Cook, NME, 24 March 1984

AN OLD-FASHIONED man in the midst of a booming, disordered black music, Bobby Womack's journeyman career comes to a glorious peak with The Poet II. ...

Johnnie Taylor: Eargasm

Review by Cliff White, NME, 24 April 1976

THAT THIS ALBUM has already been such an overwhelming success in America must surely be due to US Columbia's marketing techniques rather than the music, ...

Van Hunt: Van Hunt

Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, Village Voice, 27 April 2004

PREENING, CONFESSING, aloof Atlanta R&B phenom falls short ...

Chaka Khan, Rufus: Rufus, featuring Chaka Khan: Rufusized (ABC Dunhill)

Review by Idris Walters, Let It Rock, March 1975

RUFUS DATE back to 1968. They were called the American Breed. They had 'Bend Me Shape Me' for a hit record. The American Breed became ...

Take 6: Beautiful World

Review by Mark Anthony Neal, PopMatters, 19 June 2002

WHEN TAKE 6 dropped their self-titled debut in 1988, contemporary R&B and gospel were both at crossroads and the idea of an a cappella gospel ...

The Pleasure of the Pain

Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 12 June 1982

Various Artists: Lost Soul, Vols. 1-3 (Epic, import) ...