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Soul Of The Blues (CD)

By: Solomon Burke (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Soul Of The Blues (CD) Album By Solomon Burke (Artist)
1   My Babe
2   Good Rockin' Tonight
3   Sufferin' Mind
4   Letter From My Darling
5   Don't Decieve Me
6   Candy
7   Crawdad Hole
8   Along About Midnight
9   Pledging My Love
10   Lonesome Highway
11   Street Walking Woman
12   No Nights By Myself
 

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Review

Down Beat (1/94, p.46) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...[Solomon Burke's] capacity for telling stories remains tremendous..."

Title Note

Personnel: Solomon Burke (vocals); Clarence Hollimon, Sam Mayfield (guitar); Mark Kazonoff (harmonica, tenor & baritone saxophones); Eric Traub (tenor saxophone); Jamil Sharif (trumpet); John Touchy, Steve Suter (trombone); Sammy Berfect (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); David Tarnowsky (piano); George Porter, Jr. (bass); Herman V. Ernest III (drums).

Personnel include: Solomon Burke (vocals); Selassie Burke (vocals); Sam Mayfield, Clarence Hollimon (guitar); Steve Suter (trombone); Sammy Berfect (piano, Hammond b-3 organ); David Torkanowsky (piano); George Porter Jr., Anthony Hamilton (bass instrument); Herman Ernest III (drums).

Recording information: Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans, Louisiana (1993).

With his many businesses in wildly differing fields, it's a wonder Solomon Burke finds the time to record at all. A quick perusal of SOUL OF THE BLUES's liner notes reveals him to be, among other things, "...proprietor of a chain of funeral homes, owner of a multi-city limousine service, drugstore operator and distributor of his own line of roots, herbs and religious articles." First and foremost though, he's one of the great purveyors of deep soul, country soul, Southern soul, and pretty much any other kind of soul he's asked to sing.

Here he applies his considerable vocal talents to reworking a dozen blues classics, backed by a classy New Orleans crew that's smooth as butter and sharp as tacks, as required. Willie Dixon's "My Babe" is given the full New Orleans second-line treatment, while Ray Brown's "Good Rockin' Tonight" finds Burke giving an excellent impersonation of a blues shouter. He's at his best on the deeper, slower material such as "Letter From My Darling," which gives him a chance to flex his preacher muscles as well as show off his almost casual mastery of the country soul ballad, a genre he pretty much invented. SOUL OF THE BLUES displays Solomon Burke's loose, relaxed brilliance at its best.

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