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1999 studio album by Bobby Womack

Back to My Roots

Released

August 24, 1999

Recorded

1999

Length

60:11

Bobby Womack

Resurrection
(1994)

Back to My Roots
(1999)

Traditions
(1999)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

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.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(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"	Traditional	5:19
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 Snyder	4:09
17.	"Amen/This Little Light of Mine/Closing Narration"		3:39

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Discography
Studio albums	Fly Me to the Moon (1969) My Prescription (1970) Communication (1971) Understanding (1972) Facts of Life (1973) Lookin' for a Love Again (1974) I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To (1975) Safety Zone (1975) BW Goes C&W (1976) Home Is Where the Heart Is (1976) Pieces (1978) Roads of Life (1979) The Poet (1981) The Poet II (1984) So Many Rivers (1985) Someday We'll All Be Free (1985) Womagic (1986) The Last Soul Man (1987) Save the Children (1989) Resurrection (1994) Back to My Roots (1999) Traditions (1999) The Bravest Man in the Universe (2012)
Singles	"California Dreamin'" "Fly Me to the Moon" "How I Miss You Baby" "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" "That's the Way I Feel About Cha" "Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)" "Woman's Gotta Have It" "Harry Hippie" "Across 110th Street" "Lookin' for a Love" "Daylight" "If You Think You're Lonely Now" "I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much" "Someday We'll All Be Free" "Living in a Box" "Please Forgive My Heart"

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