What the CL Music Team is spinning this fine Monday to rocket launch the work week…
Gabe E. — Bobby Womack, Check It Out: The Best Of Bobby Womack (2010)
A two-CD career overview of the underrated genius and unsung hero of RnB music. Womack has written plenty of great songs that have been covered in almost every genre of music and he plays a mean guitar, but his forceful gravel-coated voice is his greatest talent. The opening cut of this 40-song anthology, "Across 110th Street," is one of the greatest soul songs of all time, hands down. A great way for beginners or long-time fans to dig the sounds of the great Bobby Womack in crisp, remastered sound.
Taylor T. — Seal, Soul (2008)
Seal's velvety raspiness doing Motown crooner favorites? Yes, please!
Mike W. — Animal Collective, "Tantrum Barb" (2010)
This track is from their most recent release, Oddsac, a visual album created by AC and Danney Perez. Get ready for Animal Collective in Orlando this June…
This article appears in Apr 21-27, 2011.