Solomon Burke - Very Best of Solomon Burke (Reis)
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Artist: Solomon BurkeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-07-28
Music Label: Rhino Flashback
Soundtracks:
- Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms)
- Cry to Me
- Down in the Valley
- I'm Hanging up My Heart for You
- If You Need Me
- Can't Nobody Love You
- You're Good for Me
- Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye)
- Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
- The Price
- Got to Get You off My Mind
- Tonight's the Night
- Someone Is Watching
- Take Me (Just as I Am)
- I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free)
- Soul Meeting
Music reviews of Very Best of Solomon Burke (Reis)
Music Review: Farewell To A Legendary Soul Patriarch
Rating: 5 Stars
Solomon Burke, who passed away this weekend, was the final link to a legendary soul era.
To be sure, many legendary Stax/Atlantic soul stars are still active: Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge, Mavis Staples, Sam Moore and others. But most are female or created music in duos or groups, representing a different (yet certainly vital) part of soul music's roots and growth. But like his Atlantic labelmate Ray Charles, "King" Solomon's music drew warmly and passionately from gospel, blues, and even country-western hits, all sung from the man's life, his love for his family, church and God.
The "King of Soul" (a title which so rankled James Brown he challenged Burke to give it up during a Baltimore tour stop) fit the large, gentle singer better than even he realized. His first hits heard here ("If You Need Me," "Cry To Me," "The Price,") explode from sweet soul singing into fiery sermons ringing with hope as despair, but always with authority.
Solomon Burke was also a cultural force. You'll hear his showstopping "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" and "Cry To Me" became part of the early Rolling Stones' repertoire and were respectively featured in key scenes in the era-defining films "Blues Brothers" and "Dirty Dancing." His "Got To Get You Off My Mind" was inspired by the death of his friend Sam Cooke, who he'd pay tribute to some 20 years later with a moving version of "A Change Is Gonna Come."
This tight, budget and hit-friendly collection only starts Burke's soul legend. You'll need the deeply personal treatments he gives Bobby Bare's "Detroit City," Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm," and his joyous hit version of John Fogerty's "Proud Mary" (which splits the difference between CCR and Ike & Tina with a heartfelt spoken opening.) Also reach for "Soul Alive" which brought Burke's music and live show back into public consciousness and led him to collaborate with his leading contemporaries and musical disciples (everyone from Tom Waits and Brian Wilson to the late Willie Mitchell and the hip-hop Roots, who'd planned a collaboration with him before his death.)
Burke is being remembered in some obituaries as influencing singers who eclipsed him in fame (e.g.Isaac Hayes, Barry White). But the "Bishop Of Soul," whose album titles even preached resilience ("Don't Give Up On Me," "Nothing's Impossible," "Make Do With What You Got" outlived those creative icons and left a legacy including a church, a large family of children and grandchildren, and prolific music built on spiritual as well as physical love. An essential collection and a place to start learning and loving a soul patriarch.
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Soul music at its purest and most powerful! Includes Just Out of Reach; Cry to Me; Down in the Valley; Can't Nobody Love You; If You Need Me; Take Me Just As I Am and more! 16 tracks in all.Classic Rock CDs
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