You've got something special if you can appear on stage in a red leather suit with matching cap and glasses and still come off as charming.
But then Bobby Womack has pretty much seen and done it all in a career spanning over 50 years. As he kept telling us, he'd come a long way for this show, yet it felt like we'd stopped by his home.
There's an ease to his presence that creates an intimacy that's inescapable, which is just as it should be when you're a bona fide legend who can straddle soul and rhythm and blues with ease.
After an oddly clumsy appearance, he kicked straight into Across 110th Street, and while age is clearly wearying him, his spirit was on full beam.
Nothing is hurried. If he felt like sitting, he sat, taking a pull from his water bottle ("It's good for the voice ...") then getting up for a bit of a stroll as he worked up to his next big note. But then he's a storyteller, a master of rhythm and pitch who knows how to work a room.
