Womack was also in top voice.It takes a rare legend who can name-drop Chaka Khan,Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke and still come across as a humble person merely quoting his former workmates.And it takes an even greater legend to cover a Sam Cooke classic like "Change is Gonna Come" and do it justice.
This review from the Guardian sums of the night quite well.
""So many friends of mine are no longer here," says Bobby Womack. "But I always give them respect." Pushing 70, and having survived a recent cancer scare, Womack still looks, and sounds, like a fighter. Few other performers playing Celtic Connections, Glasgow's long-standing winter roots festival, would take to the stage in a red leather ensemble of jacket, trousers and military cap, like a superfly Che Guevara. Even the opening number, Womack's cool, hard-knock hit Across 110th Street, sounds like a challenge to the crowd: you'd better keep up."
Womack gives a detailed interview about his early life , successes and troubles in The Big Issue Magazine , including the casual yet horrifying racism, segregation and apartheid practised only a few decades ago.
"If I could relive any moment in my life it would be the first time we were called up on stage to open up for Sam Cooke. I was 16 and travelling with Sam. At that time, if you were black you couldn’t even stay in a hotel. You had to stay in motels, and you had to report when you were coming in and when you were going out. At the shows, whites sat on one side and blacks sat on the other. It was scary. But Sam used to say to me: “Bobby, don’t let your spirit get broken. We have to do this for the world to get better.” Sam also used to say to me: “Look at it this way. In a motel, you get more tail.”"
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