Though it has a different name and slightly altered cover art, 2000’s Anthology is in every other aspect an exact reissue of Bobby Womack’s 1993 greatest-hits collection, Midnight Mover. The program remains an essential overview of Womack’s career between 1968 and 1976. At that time, Womack had outgrown his career as a session guitarist and songwriter and was striving to make it as a solo star. He found an early benefactor in Wilson Pickett, who collaborated with Womack and made huge hits of “I’m a Midnight Mover” and “I’m in Love,” both of which Womack subsequently recorded for himself. Womack took advantage of his ties to the great studios of Memphis and Muscle Shoals, and “Somebody Special,” “How I Miss You Baby," and "More Than I Can Stand” are Southern soul classics on par with the best of Otis Redding, O.V. Wright, or James Carr. Perhaps the biggest revelation here is the live medley of “Laughing and Clowning” and “To Live the Past,” which shows Womack working a predominantly black crowd at the California Club in Watts, circa 1970.