The mid-'80s album
Someday We'll All Be Free was actually comprised of outtakes from two earlier
Bobby Womack albums on the Beverly Glen label,
The Poet and The Poet II. It might not be as strong and consistent as those records, but if you do like those two albums, you'll probably like this as well. It has the same smooth soul feel, though like the rest of his output from this era, it's nothing to get excited about, in the context of soul music or within
Womack's own large body of work. It tends toward the silky ballads, with the exception of the up-tempo verging-on-dance number "Falling in Love Again." The presence of covers of songs by
Donny Hathaway ("Someday We'll All Be Free") and Bobby Moore (a vocoder-blemished "Searching for My Love") might be indicative of the leftover nature of these tracks: unembarrassing, but nothing to stand with the artist's better work, in this era or others. ~ Richie Unterberger