Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up on Me
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Artist: Solomon BurkeEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-07-23
Music Label: Epitaph / Ada
Soundtracks:
- Don't Give Up On Me (Dan Penn)
- Fast Train (Van Morrison)
- Diamond In Your Mind (Tom Waits)
- Flesh And Blood (Joe Henry)
- Soul Searchin' (Brian Wilson / Paley)
- Only A Dream (Van Morrison)
- The Judgment (Elvis Costello / Cait O'Riordan)
- Stepchild (Bob Dylan)
- The Other Side Of The Coin (Nick Lowe)
- None Of Us Are Free (Mann & Weil / Russell)
- Sit This One Out (Pick Purnell)
Free Music Notes for Don't Give Up on Me
Free Music Review: A magnificent labor of love nobody should be without: ten stars!
Hit: 5 Stars
In February 2002 Solomon Burke and a couple of other terrific musicians went into the studio to record this gem. All live and just in four days.
In four days? Impossible? Listen to this and I promise you'll never question them again. These guys don't need tons of takes, they know exactly what they're doing. Just get together and tape it. Amazing!!!
What do I say when words fail me to describe the intensity, the depth, the love, the joy and pain, the hope and everything else that is this music.
Solomon Burke, the American icon, doesn't need an introduction.
The way he molds these songs (some especially written for him) into unforgettable stories just blows you away.
Joe Henry who produced the album, did a marvelous job. Besides writing my favorite Flesh and Blood, he was able to bring out the best in these great musicians and capture it for ages to come. This is SOUL music in the truest meaning of the word. One of my all time favorites!!!
Great musicians: Jay Bellerose drums and percussion, Chris Bruce guitar, David Palmer piano and keys, David Pitch bass and Rudy Copeland organ.
The guests are just as amazing: Bennie Wallace tenor sax, Daniel Lanois electric guitars, Niki Harris and Jean McClain background vocals, The Blind Boys of Alabama special guests.
Songs by Bob Dylan (Stepchild), Nick Lowe (The Other Side of the Coin), Van Morrison (Fast Train, Only A Dream), Tom Waits (Diamond in Your Mind) Brian Wilson (Soul Searchin')
Close your eyes and enjoy!
Don't Give Up on Me Poster
Of all the great male '60s soul singers--a short list that includes Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, and James Brown--only Solomon Burke still actively records. More amazing, he's produced his best full-length album with Don't Give Up on Me. It's easy to give some credit to the album's star songwriters, who include Burke fans Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Van Morrison, Brian Wilson, and Bob Dylan. But really it's the quality of the songs and Burke himself, one of the most versatile and charismatic singers around, that make this album so special.The 11 songs range from the lazy, seductive plea of the title track and the gravelly gospel of "Diamond in Your Mind" to the country-soul of "Other Side of the Coin" and the civil-rights-era urgency of "None of Us Are Free." Joe Henry's production is suitably subdued, and the instrumentation--generally guitar, bass, drums, organ, and piano--is sympathetic throughout. And if you doubt that Burke is the real star in a room crowded with those folks, consider this: the two slightest tracks here were written by Wilson and Costello, while one of the best, the album-closing "Sit This One Out," was written by someone named Pick Purnell. A great album not fixed in the past or fully of this decade, Don't Give Up is a crowning achievement of an R&B pioneer who has returned to reclaim his self-bestowed title from the '60s: "The King of Rock and Soul." --Keith Moerer
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