The King of Rock ‘N Soul was a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and penned many a stellar song ... Solomon your personal clown in front of all your friends. Burke’s dulcet vocals are ...

Burke was known as "King Solomon ... songs make the Cash Box R&B charts, with "Got to Get You Off My Mind" reaching #1, and 23 that charted on their pop chart hits, with seven making Cash Box's ...

Download this show in the All Songs Considered podcast. Though he never had a top 20 pop hit, Solomon Burke has long had the respect and admiration of better known musicians like Bob Dylan ...

Solomon Burke ... Anti-Records teamed to pair Burke with producer Joe Henry for the album “Don’t Give up on Me.” The set, which featured new original songs by Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson ...

When Epitaph Records’ Andy Kaulkin first approached Solomon Burke about being part ... He wanted Burke to record an album of songs written for him by the country’s top songwriters.

SOLOMON BURKE IS A legend in his own time a soul crooner ... He takes his audience on a wild, roller-coaster ride of song, from shouting like a preacher on one number to sounding like a soothing ...

I became a fan for life. If somebody told me then that I would one day be asked to write a song for Solomon Burke, I would have thought he’d be out of his head.” But Lowe now finds himself in ...

Solomon Burke ... s most essential songs of the 1960s, prime examples of the sweet soul music that harnessed the earnestness of the Southern gospel tradition in which Burke was raised to create ...

no one has leaned on the tributee-album concept more than Solomon Burke. Since he jumpstarted his dormant career with 2002’s Mi>Don’t Give Up on Me (featuring new songs by Van Morrison ...

Many things have gone unchanged in a secular Solomon Burke ... new songs into the concert fold and giving them a presence in line with his 1960s classics. Album is one of the top two or three ...

Soul great Solomon Burke ... great story in itself), Burke got his start in the music business with a series of country recordings (his first record was a Pasty Cline song), eventually moving ...

Solomon Burke ... s most essential songs of the 1960s, prime examples of the sweet soul music that harnessed the earnestness of the Southern gospel tradition in which Burke was raised to create ...