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  • Understanding (album)
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  • Understanding is a 1972 R&B album recorded by Bobby Womack for United Artists Records. Womack recorded Understanding in Memphis, Tennessee at American Sound Studio and in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. At Muscle Shoals, he utilized top session players, including drummer Roger Hawkins, guitarists Jimmy Johnson and Tippy Armstrong, bassist David Hood and keyboardist Barry Beckett.
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  • 2131.0
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Label
Producer
Name
  • Understanding
Genre
Type
  • studio
Last album
  • Communication
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This Album
  • Understanding
Cover
  • Bobby_Womack_Understanding.jpg
Next album
  • Across 110th Street (Soundtrack)
Released
  • 1972-05-30
Artist
Recorded
  • 1972
  • Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
abstract
  • Understanding is a 1972 R&B album recorded by Bobby Womack for United Artists Records. Womack recorded Understanding in Memphis, Tennessee at American Sound Studio and in Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. At Muscle Shoals, he utilized top session players, including drummer Roger Hawkins, guitarists Jimmy Johnson and Tippy Armstrong, bassist David Hood and keyboardist Barry Beckett. The album reached No. 43 on the Billboard pop albums chart and No. 7 on the R&B albums chart. One of the key songs from the album, "I Can Understand It", has become a soul classic and was a major hit for New Birth the following year. The song was also covered by Womack's brothers The Valentinos (Curtis, Harry and Friendly, Jr.) with production from Bobby. The brothers sing background on the original version. The album version of "I Can Understand It" became a huge club hit in the northeast underground soul and gay clubs prior to the birth of disco. At that time, djs skillfully played the cut directly from the album. New York City record stores began selling the album briskly when they noticed a highly diverse customer buying Womack's music.