Back to My Roots (album)

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Back to My Roots
Bobby Womack Back to My Roots.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 24, 1999
Recorded1999
Genre Gospel
Length60:11
Label The Right Stuff/Capitol/EMI Records
Producer Bobby Womack
Bobby Womack chronology
Resurrection
(1994)
Back to My Roots
(1999)
Traditions
(1999)
Professional ratings
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Back to My Roots is the 21st studio album by American singer-songwriter Bobby Womack. The album was released on August 24, 1999, by The Right Stuff Records and Capitol Records. [3]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Opening Narration" 1:17
2."Rug" 5:14
3."Stand by Me" Sam Cooke, J. W. Alexander, Junior Walker 2:39
4."Oh Happy Day"Johann Freylinghausen, Philip Doddridge, Edward F. Rimbault 7:04
5."Jesus Be a Fence Around Me" 3:16
6."What a Friend We Have in Jesus" Joseph M. Scriven, Charles C. Converse 3:18
7."Where There's a Will There's a Way" 3:33
8."I'm Coming Home" 3:24
9."It Is Well" 4:46
10."Motherless Child"Traditional5:19
11."Bridge over Troubled Water" Paul Simon 4:17
12."Looking Back" 3:26
13."Ease My Troubled Mind" 5:13
14."Nearer My God to Thee" 4:55
15."Cousin Henry" 5:44
16."A Hundred Pounds of Clay"Bobby Elgin, Luther Dixon, Eddie Snyder4:09
17."Amen/This Little Light of Mine/Closing Narration" 3:39

References

  1. Back to My Roots at AllMusic
  2. Colin Larkin (2006). "Womack, Bobby". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music . Vol. 8 (4th ed.). Muze, Oxford University Press. p. 751–2. ISBN   978-0-19-531373-4.
  3. Tom Hallett. "Back to My Roots - Bobby Womack". AllMusic. Retrieved September 10, 2015.