Raised in the church and constantly seeking to reconcile his faith with his love of secular music, Burke could easily have been a footnote in music history having spent some time on the roster of Apollo Records (home to the phenomenal Mahalia Jackson), marketed as a pop/gospel singer. Covering his tenure at Atlantic Records, this new 3-CD retrospective curated by Bob Fisher and founder of David Nathan, seeks to turn the spotlight back onto Burke, a man ‘officially’ declared the King Of Rock ‘n’ Soul in 1963.īurke has never enjoyed quite as high a profile as many of his contemporaries but as this collection of 78 tracks from the 1960s shows, he was more than a match for most of them in terms of vocal technique, character, back-story and sheer soul power. Solomon Burke was as complex a character in the world of Rock and Soul as any of the names that have seemingly outshone him in terms of legacy and fame. “Everybody Needs Somebody To Love is likely to have been the gateway drug to Solomon Burke for a lot of people whose first exposure to many soul and R’n’B songs came via the performances in the 1980 movie, The Blues Brothers and the accompanying soundtrack” ❉ This 3-CD retrospective maps out ‘King Solomon’s rise and fall with Atlantic.
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