“He is Solomon the resonator … the golden voice of heart, wisdom, soul and experience. He’s one of the architects of American music.” Tom Waits In early February 2008, Duke Performances presented ...

Solomon Burke comes from the storied tradition of soul singers who made the leap from church choir to radio. He has been proselytizing since he was seven, and he has the warm, rich voice of a singing ...

Since 1984, when Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney and Dave Edmunds helped The Everly Brothers launch their comeback with the album EB ’84, a certain kind of record has been a fixture on the pop landscape.

Of course, if history had proceeded at a slightly different pace, Burke might have been able to make his Nashville debut much earlier. With a voice that possesses every bit as much sadness and ...

Soul music legend Solomon Burke died Sunday morning at age 70. His hits included "Cry To Me," "Got to Get You Off Off My Mind" and "Tonight's The Night." He in Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport while on ...

Burke is one of the all-time great soul singers, an artist with the character and command of such legendary figures as Otis Redding, Ray Charles and Sam Cooke. But the Philadelphia native, who did his ...

When Epitaph Records’ Andy Kaulkin first approached Solomon Burke about being part of the Fat Possum family–the Mississippi label home to blues guitarists R.L. Burnside and T-Model Ford–the soul ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) - Solomon Burke was born to the sound of music in an upstairs room of a Philadelphia church and went on to become one of the greatest soul singers of the 1960s, renowned as among ...

“I knocked this album up a couple of notches,” Solomon Burke says of his latest effort, Make Do with What You Got, which hits stores March 1st. The record, the follow-up to the soul legend’s ...

Aretha Franklin waived her fee to headline the Sam Cooke tribute I produced some years ago. It was the 2005 American Music Masters series, held at the Cleveland Playhouse and hosted by the Rock and ...

Many things have gone unchanged in a secular Solomon Burke show over the past 2½ decades -- the medleys, the sanctifying, the tributes to old soul singers, the purity of his delivery. As he mounts a ...

When legendary artists like B.B. King or James Brown grow old and start resting on their laurels, it’s easy to forgive them. After all, they’ve long since earned the right to sit back, enjoy life and ...