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- Summary:
- Record Label: Fat Possum
- Genre(s): Rock, Soul
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Top Track
| Don't Give Up On Me | |
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| If I fall short, if I don't make the grades/ If your expectations aren't met in me today/ There is always tomorrow, or tomorrow night/ Hang in there... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 13
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Mixed: 0 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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It's okay, you can believe all of the fawning reviews you're going to read about this album. Because when still-kicking '60s soul legend Solomon Burke puts his earthy baritone to lyrics written by some of today's most critically acclaimed songwriters, it's simply magical.
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Entertainment WeeklyThe results are astonishing. [26 July 2002, p.68]
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Burke delivers as pure and proper a record as you'll hear all year. If you've ever laughed or cried, you need to hear this.
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UncutThe entire album sounds as if it was made to be heard on a Fifties jukebox rather than a state-of-the-art super-audio digital system. [Sep 2002, p.112]
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Burke is the rare singer who makes songwriters sound wise beyond their words -- he finds ache lying dormant in unlikely places and manages to pinpoint, with GPS accuracy, the murky emotional terrain within the lyrics.
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Q MagazineThe songs are perfectly pitched, and even the less obviously suited numbers are approached with interpretive genius. [Sep 2002, p.101]
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The latest Old Person to forge Honest Music in the teeth of a Youth-Orientated Marketplace has lost his legendary voice, so what's the attraction?
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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JimLApr 4, 2006Great!
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LawrencePMar 9, 2005The best soul LP of the last 20 years, he makes all these songs his own.
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AaronLOct 7, 2002Simply wonderful. A wonderful introduction for younger audiences to discover this overlooked soulman.
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