Well, after 70 years, 17 million records sold, 21 children and 90 grand children, original soul man Solomon Burke has died. How many real Soul Men are left, I wonder? How many of his label mates at the legendary Atlantic records back in the sixties are still going? Aretha Franklin for one . . .can’t be many more though. According to the news I’m reading, the cause of death isn’t clear, but how many 30 stone 70 year olds are there? Solomon enjoyed his life right to the end, performing live, recording, and writing music. It’s fitting that he died on the way to a gig, as he says in this interview in the telegraph last year, ‘I’ll sing as long as I have breath’
The classic
Here is a tribute compilation of some of my favourite tracks of his career, from the blaxploitation soundtrack he did for ‘Cool Breeze’ in 1972, to records released this year. There is soul, country, blues, funk and rock and roll represented, some live, some duets with legends like Jerry Lee Lewis and Willy Deville – but no compilation can fully do justice to this guy’s career. His was one of the all time great voices, and no doubt the world will only appreciate him more and more as time goes on.
01 - Up To The Mountain (with Patty Griffin)
02 - Everybody Wants Somebody To Love
03 - Get up and do something for yourself
04 - Maggies Farm
05 - Get Out Of My Life Woman
06 - Railroad to Heaven (Jerry Lee Lewis w. Solomon Burke)
07 – Stupidity
08 - If You Need Me
09 - Ookie Bookie Man
10 - Got To Get You Off My Mind
11 - What A Woman
12 - If you need me (with Willy DeVille)
13 - Don't Give Up On Me
14 - Hold On I'm Coming
15 - Ever Lasting Love
16 - The Bus (with Gene Page)
17 Cruel World (Live at the House of Blues)
18 - Cool Breeze
19 - You're Good for Me
20 - Tonight's the Night
21 - Fast Train
22 - Cry To Me
Cant actually listen to cry to me without feeling abject horror deep within my soul.
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Cool never seen that Dave, big fan of Adam Curtis but, his blog is good
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Am currently downloading 'it felt like a kiss' from here
http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtis-ItFeltLikeAKiss
I like feeling abject horror deep within my soul.Looking forward to it.
The film was just the half way point of a 3h 'experience' that culminated in being chased around by a chainsaw murderer. It was a bit like alien war meets bbc4
ReplyDeleteThe tunes were played all around the mad place and every time i hear them i grimace.
Alien war meets bbc4? That almost sums up my taste in entertainment. Chainsaw murderers, modern social history and Solomon Burke? What was this?
ReplyDeleteWhen i went i hadnt planned to tell anyone incase it was repeated, but it looks like its too expensive to run anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteSo you turn up at this abandoned office building with about 6 other people. they lead you into the lobby and do the old, if your of a nervous disposition etc. You go over to the lift and it takes you to the top floor. there was noone there so you and your group sort of wander about together. You come to a room and its set out like a CIA field office and you can spend as long as you want reading through the material, flicking through files. Go to another room and your in a movie set, another room was white picket fence house. You go through offices of famous psychologists and see all the equipment they use. Creepy as fuck, goes on for 2:30h. there is TONS of stuff to see with your group and the music is on all the way thorough. All like curtis archive material
Halfway through you are in the middle and they show you the film. basically every room you have just been through and rifled though is linked to the film. After that you are taken through a mental hospital where the 'staff' ask you to fill out a personality questionnaire. You hang about for a while then your group gets taken through to the 'test.' But when you go in you are in another room fromm the 50s. Only a bit more fucked up. then the chainsaw starts and everyone does a bolt to the next room.
In there was a wire mesh pathway, and it transpires you have to run to the next part. All the while the chainsaw is goin bananas and getting louder. In the first clearing there was a command lit up in neon, pick up the axe. then beep beep beep,chainsaw. Then to the next clearing. A few more increased weaponss then it was, PICK UP THE GUN and theres a gun there. But the chainsaw is really fucking loud so you have to do a bolt.
Then the maddest part. You are with the same six people you were with at the start and a weird bond has happened. But as you run from the chainsaw murderer the path splits in two. Still bolting. The path splits in two, until you are on your own in a tiny corridor bolting from this chainsaw cunt.
and then bang the end you are in daylight and they hand you an a4 sheet explaining all the people the rooms were based on and what they meant for the death of the american dream.
then i shuffled off for a beer.
Fuckin awesome.
ReplyDeleteThank you, good selection! Don't forget to check out his last(?) album with the Dutch band De Dijk, not bad either...
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