Home in Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke CD

Home in Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke buy CD music WORLD WITHOUT TEARS was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. "Righteously" was nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Though it's ultimately a less balladic, more stylistically varied album than its dreamy predecessor ESSENCE, WORLD WITHOUT TEARS starts out with a slow-burning, reverb-drenched ballad, but then takes a sharp turn into sensual lyricism, pounding drums, and churning guitar on "Righteously." For some time, the dominant topic of Lucinda Williams albums has been the edgy appeal of dangerous, often doomed men, and true to form there are plenty of those on WORLD WITHOUT TEARS. Witness the tragic anti-hero of "Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings," the troubled guy with the "sexy crooked teeth" in "Overtime," or the psychologically damaged character whose "Sweet Side" still calls out to the singer. That's not the whole story, of course; there's also the raw, stomping blues of "Atonement," where Lucinda comes off like a frenzied hellfire-and-brimstone Old Testament preacher, and the hip-hop/Americana collision of the socially conscious "American Dream." Whether she's spitting fire or crooning sweet messages of solace, though, Williams is a strikingly communicative singer, and the mere sound of her voice lends an instant weight to whatever song it graces. Recorded at Real Music Studios Incorporated, Los Angeles, California. Personnel: Lucinda Williams (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Doug Pettibone (electric guitar, mandolin); Jim Christie (Wurlitzer organ, drums). Audio Mixer: Mark Howard. Recording information: Real Music Studio, Inc., Los Angeles, CA. Photographer: Danny Clinch. Arrangers: Doug Pettibone; Taras Prodaniuk; Jim Christie. Personnel: Lucinda Williams (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Doug Pettibone (electric guitar, mandolin, ...

Home in Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke CD music The title may not be 100-percent accurate, since the songs here are culled from Franklin's soul years, roughly between 1967 and 1974, and she's had lots more hits since then. That nit picked, however, this is a genuine embarrassment of riches, with Aretha's soaring voice and under-appreciated piano decorating one wonderful genre-defining song ("Respect," "Chain of Fools," "Natural Woman," "Since You've Been Gone") after another. The most revelatory cut is probably "I Say a Little Prayer," in which Franklin imbues the song with a spine-tingling gospel flavor without ever losing the pop delicacy of the original Dionne Warwick version. But just about everything else here is essential listening. Includes liner notes by Norma Edwards. Compilation producer: Kim Cooke. Producers: Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield. Compilation producers: Norma Edwards, David Nathan. Personnel: Aretha Franklin (vocals, piano, background vocals); Cissy Houston, Ellie Greenwich (vocals); Chips Moman, Cornell Dupree, Jimmy Johnson , David Spinozza, Duane Allman, Eddie Hinton, Hugh McCracken, Jerry Weaver, Charlie Freeman (guitar); Don Arnone (acoustic guitar); Joe Farrell (flute, tenor saxophone); Hubert Laws (flute); King Curtis (brass); The Memphis Horns (horns); Spooner Oldham (electric piano); Kenneth Lupper, Richard Tee (organ); Donny Hathaway, Jim Dickinson, Mike Utley, Barry Beckett, Billy Preston (keyboards); Kenneth Bichel (synthesizer); Al Jackson, Jr. , Ray Lucas, Rick Marotta, Roger Hawkins, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Sammy Creason (drums); Pancho Morales (congas); Dr. John, Robert "Pops" Popwell (percussion); Erma Franklin, The Sweethearts of Soul, Carolyn Franklin (background vocals). Liner Note Author: Larry LeBlanc. Director: James Cleveland. Unknown Contributor Roles: Eric Clapton; Joe South; King Curtis. Personnel includes: Aretha Franklin (vocals, piano); Chips Moman, Jimmy Johnson, Eddie Hinton, Jerry Weaver, Charlie Freeman, Hugh McCracken, Cornell Dupree, Don Arnone, David Spinozza (guitar); Joe Farrell (flute, tenor saxophone); Hubert Laws (flute); The Memphis Horns (horns); Spooner Oldham (electric piano, organ); Richard Tee, Ken Lupper (organ); Barry Beckett, Jim Dickinson, Mike Utley, Donny Hathaway (keyboards); Kenneth Bichel (synthesizer); Tommy Cogbill, David Hood, Tommy McClure, Eric Gale, Chuck Rainey (bass), Roger Hawkins, Sammy Creason, Al Jackson, Ray Lucas, Bernard Purdie, Rick Marotta (drums); Pancho Morales (congas); Robert Popwell, Doctor John, Ralph MacDonald (percussion); Erma Franklin, Carolyn Franklin, The Sweet Inspirations, The Sweethearts Of Soul, The Southern California Community Choir (background vocals); Joe South. Producers: Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Aretha Franklin, Quincy Jones.

Home in Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke songs The giant left-handed guitarist was no stranger to the recording studio by 1966, but Albert King had still to make his mark with the record-buying public. When he linked up with the cream of Stax's Memphis musicians, including Booker T. And The MGs and the Memphis Horns, that connection was made. "Laundromat Blues", "Oh, Pretty Woman" and "Crosscut Saw" set the scene for "Born Under A Bad Sign" and "The Hunter", which quickly found their way into the repertoires of Cream and Free. The convolutions of his guitar style were perfectly complemented by the trademark Stax funk rhythms. The team went on to make many more singles and albums, none of which could surpass the achievements of their first meeting. Recorded at Stax Recording Studio, Memphis, Tennessee between March 1966 and June 1967. The Memphis Horns: Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love (horns). Personnel: Albert King (vocals, guitar); Steve Cropper (guitar); Joe Arnold, Andrew Love, The Memphis Horns, Wayne Jackson (horns); Isaac Hayes, Booker T. Jones (piano); Al Jackson, Jr. (drums). Audio Remasterer: George Horn. Liner Note Authors: Deanie Parker; Michael Point. Recording information: Stax Recording Studio, Memphis, TN (03/03/1966-06/09/1967). Photographer: Jim Marshall . Personnel includes: Albert King (vocals, guitar); Joe Arnold (horns); Isaac Hayes (piano). Booker T. & The MG's: Booker T. Jones (piano); Steve Cropper (guitar); Donald "Duck" Dunn (bass); Al Jackson, Jr. (drums).

Home in Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke album for sale DON'T GIVE UP ON ME features song contributions from Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Nick Lowe, Dan Penn, Joe Henry, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. DON'T GIVE UP ON ME won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Van Morrison--the stellar list of songwriting contributors on this comeback effort by '60s soul legend Solomon Burke goes on and on. Did we mention Brian Wilson, Nick Lowe, and even his highness Bob Dylan also donating tunes? Burke came to prominence when soul music was a staple on AM radio as performed by himself and peers Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, and Aretha Franklin. Contemporary R&B singers from the endlessly melismatic school could learn a thing or two from Burke's passionate restraint. As producer, the singer-songwriter Joe Henry takes a page from the Daniel Lanois (Dylan, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris) school favoring natural sounds, deep resonance, and subtly spectral reverb. There is much reverence to the past in this relatively stripped down approach, but it is also perfectly evident upon close inspection that this is a contemporary album. Burke had recently been active singing in church, and on this effort he shows that he hasn't forgotten where he came from, bringing along his parish's tasty organist, Brother Rudy Copeland. The tone throughout is primarily serious, occasionally solemn, and then along comes the straight-ahead blues by Dylan to inject the proceedings with playful self-pity and -mockery on "Stepchild" (as in "You treat me like a"). Honorable mention goes to Fat Possum Records for having the foresight and inspiration to re-introduce an overlooked American gem to a mainstream audience. He Covers New & Unrel.Songs By Dylan,E.Costello,T.Waits,N.Low Recorded at Sunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, California on February 25-28, 2002. Includes liner notes by Johnny Whiteside. Personnel: Solomon Burke, Blind Boys Of Alabama (vocals); Daniel Lanois, Chris Bruce (guitar); Bennie Wallace (tenor saxophone); David Palmer (piano, organ); Rudy Copeland (organ); David Pitch (bass); Jay Bellerose (drums, percussion); Niki Harris, Jean McClain (background vocals). Personnel: Chris Bruce (guitar); Daniel Lanois (electric guitar); Bennie Wallace (tenor saxophone); Rudy Copeland (organ); Jay Bellerose (drums, percussion); Nikki Harris, Jean McClain (background vocals). Audio Mixer: S. "Husky" Höskulds. Liner Note Author: Joe Henry. Recording information: Sunset Sound Factory, Hollywood, CA (02/25/2002-02/28/2002). Photographer: Jesse Fischer .

Home in Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke CD music Contains material recorded for the Duke-Peacock subsidiary, Back Beat, between 1964 and 1974. O.V. Wright is part of the Pantheon Of 1960s Soul, up there with Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, and Otis Redding. He's not as well known as them--at least in America--but his songs have been covered by Redding, the Rolling Stones, Robert Cray, and Ann Peebles. Like Burke and Franklin, his vocal style was heavily based in Southern gospel music, passionately balancing the sacred and the secular. Wright fervently implored, pleaded, and howled his tales of love lost, strayed, thwarted, or shattered. "A Nickel and a Nail" is one of the finest distillations of no-way-out desperation ever recorded. Wright affirms his love to the heavens by crying out the dramatically devotional "I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled and Crazy." The music is prime Memphis rhythm & blues: full of sharp, terse guitar, rich Hammond organ, and gospel-informed background vocals--tight and funky but never slick. Compilation producer: Andy McKaie. Personnel: O.V. Wright (vocals). Liner Note Author: Bill Bentley. Recording information: 1964-1973.

Home in Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke buy CD music This reissue includes seven bonus tracks recorded during the PROUD MARY sessions. Recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in 1969 & 1970. Originally released on Amy (6033). Includes liner notes by John Fogerty and Bill Dahl. Digitally remastered by Bob Irwin (Sundaze Studios, Coxsackie, New York). Solomon Burke was one of the greatest voices to come out the 1960s soul explosion, the same period that produced James Brown, Marvin Gaye, and Otis Redding. Burke's style mixes mellow, country-tinged elegance with shouting, Southern gospel-charged R&B, and was an influence on the early British invasion. (Steve Marriott and Mick Jagger, to name two--and the Rolling Stones covered two of his songs). In the late '60s he left Atlantic and signed with Bell, and scored a hit with Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary." This album serves as a fine representation of Burke's power and versatility: he recasts country classics "She Thinks I Still Care" and "That Lucky Old Sun" in his own soulful, reverent manner. He also produces a tantalizingly slow and bluesy take on Marvin Gaye's "I'll Be Doggone." The music is prime Muscle Shoals R&B, simmering and sharp, with just the right touch of pop "sweetening" (such as the electric sitar flourish on "How Big A Fool") in the tradition of the classic DUSTY (Springfield) IN MEMPHIS. Re-Issue Plus 6 Bonus Tracks From 1969 Personnel includes: Solomon Burke (vocals). Producers: Solomon Burke, Tamiko Jones, Mac Davis. Reissue producers: Efram Turchick, Bill Dahl. Engineers include: Mickey Buckins. Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl. Recording information: Muscle Shoals, AL (1969-1970). Photographers: Fred Kaplan; Al Quaglieri; Bill Miller . Arrangers: Gene Page; Solomon Burke.