Besides numerous album reviews, OffBeat also published two feature interviews with Burke, both very entertaining. Scott Jordan talked to the King of Rock and Soul for the July 1997 Backtalk, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Solomon Burke’s contributions to American music are often underrepresented in mainstream discussions of soul, yet his influence is undeniable. Known as the “King of Rock ’n’ Soul,” ...
R+B singer Solomon Burke. has released a new record called Like a Fire. Kurt Andersen talked to Burke back in 2006, when he released Nashville, a collection of tunes he recorded in the country-music ...
Solomon Burke (March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American recording artist and vocalist, who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s and ...
He won his Grammy in 2003, but Solomon Burke, who died Oct. 10 at 70, became the “King of Rock and Soul” long before that. He first sang “Cry to Me” in 1962 and preached “Everybody Needs Somebody to ...