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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grammy-winning soul singer Solomon Burke, known for the 1964 hit "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love,'' apparently suffered a heart attack and died on a flight from Los Angeles to Amsterdam Sunday. He ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Two legends threw no curveballs into their standard sets at the Hollywood Bowl and one came out like a warhorse and the other emerged as vital and current. Two legends threw no curveballs into their ...

AMSTERDAM - 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 music's ...

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 ...

Yet his popularity never matched that of those he influenced, contemporaries including James Brown and Marvin Gaye, a reality he accepted with grace and some frustration, colleagues said. Burke, 70, ...

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 ...

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