It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

It was revealed in March that Womack was diagnosed with colon cancer after Bootsy Collins reported it on his Facebook page. The album bolstered his first top 40 hit "That's the Way I Feel About Cha" which peaked at number two R&B and number twenty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1972. In 1973 Womack released another hit album Facts of Life and had a top 40 hit with "Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out" an older song Sam Cooke had done years before.

In 2009 Womack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Womack wrote and originally recorded The Rolling Stones' first UK No. Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack (pron.