There is a new genre in pop music emerging. It's not coming from the housing estates of Tottenham, or the studios of LA. It hasn't stumbled out of the clubs of Ibiza, or drifted into mainstream from the back streets of Rio. It isn't radical or exciting or rebellious or loud. It is something else altogether: a form that has only just become possible, which is not down to technological progress, but the more mundane inevitability of the ageing process.
Bobby Womack went down a similar hip-collaboration route for his final album The Bravest Man in the Universe , made with Blur's Damon Albarn and produced by Richard Russell. Womack's voice has the vintage wine vibe of Cash's, but this time it's the sound of '60s soul distilled through decades of hard living and regret.
They are all there to be heard in Marianne Faithfull's Negative Capability , in which she covers It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, written by her old friend Bob Dylan, the 2016 Nobel Laureate and most recent entrant to the ranks of the late career album brigade.
Didn't realise WillGompertzBBC was keyboard player for Dylan!
BradleyWhitford i saw him at the Mosque in Richmond, Va., in 1964.
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