Sunday, 10 Oct 2010
The sad news of Solomon Burke’s passing today brings me back to my introduction to his music. Just a few months out of college, I bought Don’t Give Up on Me on whim while browsing at Atomic Records. I can remember listening to it night after night as the realization that college had ended and that somehow, at 22 years old, I was growing up. Burke’s croon became my soundtrack to now blurry nights in a rented cabin in Wisconsin Dells as I toiled away at a summer job before eventually moving to Madison. I urge you to seek out the album and listen as he breathes new life to the works of Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, and Nick Lowe.
MP3: Solomon Burke – “Fast Train”
MP3: Solomon Burke – “Diamond In Your Mind”
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Buy: Solomon Burke – Don’t Give Up on Me
October 11th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Fast train was used as the final song of season 3 of The Wire. Of all the sequences from that show that is the one that I rank at the top. Saying bye to Avon and Stringer Bell. Van Morrison is at the top of my list of performers but Solomon Burke just owned that song.