Rock 'N Soul

Fantastic

This is one of those albums that is just easy to throw on and enjoy. A lot of the great soul artists are like that, I'm finding. I don't know why I've never heard of Solomon Burke before this, but that's a problem. Surely he was influential as all hell, making an album like this so early on. Great voice and great tunes. Soulful and packed with feeling. Must-listen #154.

I already knew 'Cry to Me' and 'If You Need Me' so I expected to enjoy this one. Delightful!

Very groovy but had some trouble staying engaged with the lyrics

Great vocals and a few memorable tunes, most songs tended to blend together in my mind though.

My wife is on heavy-duty, nerve-blocking painkillers. "Why are you listening to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack?" she asked. I explained. "It sounds good though." It does sound good. I wasn't listening intently. Maybe it wouldn't sound good if I was listening closely rather than nursing my ill wife. But she liked it. The arrangements are sweet and characterful. Solomon Burke's voice is sweet and characterful too. I don't know that I can say more than that, but I trust my wife when she says that, with her nervous system dulled, she likes it. 3 Although I am not convinced that there is a great song on this album, the arrangements elevate everything. They are light and detailed - great lines everywhere, especially the guitar (whoever is playing it - I couldn’t find a credit online). Solomon Burke has a terrific voice; gruffer than Sam Cooke’s but almost as impressive. The backing singers, whoever they were, are top notch as well. A very easy listen. 3/5

soulful, but did not really listen.

Locker cooles Album. Gewisse Sachen bleiben zeitlos.

Underrated gem, another solid 4.5

What a voice!!! Track one, Cry To Me already on my liked songs (well known track) but the second track showcases how amazing his voice really is, track three shows how versatile it is with less crooning and more soul... my goodness!

The album is as advertised: It's Rock. And Soul. Of the old school kind. While some of the songs are not bad, the whole affair sounds a bit cringey to my ears. Oh well ... 2.5/5

An unexpectedly enjoyable album. Pretty cool from beginning to end. The instrumentation on You Can't Love Em All was particularly enjoyable.

More soul than rock

Oh crap, another old timey album. I hate this. It's so boring... I hear it will be a 2/5 album. I know it's part of the music evolution and all, but I can't force myself to like this stuff.

Med hits som Cry to me, If you need me, You’re good for me, Someone to love me, Can’t nobody love you og Goodbye baby (baby goodbye) føltes denne litt ensidig. Cry for me er den desidert mest populære, men den skilte seg ikke noe særlig ut.

Oldie rock and roll, solid

My son was not a big fan, not his type of music. He still gives it four stars because he recognizes the talent. I loved it and I am going to check out more. My wife agrees. Great album.

This was a good album. I enjoyed it.

Vou dar 4 estrelas pra esse álbum mas sinceramente ele merece 5 por ter me mostrado solomon. Escutei rock 'n soul na manhã e até agora estou escutando sua discografia, simplesmente uma joia encontrada.

what a voice, super smooth and a very pleasant listen!!

Favorite Track: Goodbye Baby

Very good

Love that voice. This was really nice.

It was good, but sounded pretty much the same. It sounded very similar to all this kinda “old timey rock and roll”. Yet good, nothing was bad to listen to

The artist is fantastic at giving us one thing, but not much else to be honest. What's there is great though.

Smoooooth rock.

I feel like you can throw a rock at any Burke album and find one just as good as the other. That’s not an insult. He wasn’t a singular genius or anything, but he was awfully damn good. I think of Solomon as a mostly unheard giant of 60s soul music, who kept getting career revivals over the following decades (eventually catching my ear in the early 00s). He’s neither Otis nor Sam, didn’t have a string of Motown classics, wasn’t part of the Stax stable, never had a signature hit. But when you throw a Sol record on, I mean, you’re not reaching for those other guys. And he was omnivorous - there’s a Woodie Guthrie cover here, CCR later in the decade, Maggie’s Farm even! Can’t Love ‘Em All? Bullshit.

Classic

A great voice, but this is just a bunch of (unsuccessful) attempts to rewrite 'Stand by me'.

Never heard of this artist. Album was nice.

I enjoyed it. Some solid songs. But not essential by any means.

Not really my thing (I tend to dislike this kind of music); however, Solomon Burke is a really good singer, you can hear.

Some old school '60s soul. Wish I liked it more, his singing voice is truly beautiful, but the songs completely blended into each other for me. Have to give it a 2 because it didn't really do much for me.

This one took me by surprise. Every song is just excellent.

Cry to me was a banger, everything else was mildly mid, wont mind it too much but come one.. jazz can be more fun man

Fun. Not going to listen on my own though. 3/5

Yes!

Fantastisk röst. Inlevelsen! Tyvärr märkt av dåtidens popproduktion. Mer pop än soul tyvärr. Smöriga körer som kanske inte alltid lyfter låtarna. Finns ett gott driv i rytm-sektionen. Kunde varit råare, mer soul eller mer country. Stark 3:a eller svag 4:a. Bästa spår: Beautiful Brown Eyes, You're Good for Me

It took me a few tracks to acclimatise. The studio/room sound dominates … I’m assuming that they mixed the room and lead vocal live. Some tracks get the balance better than others. Thankfully it’s an album of short songs, so starting again was not an issue. From my own perspective decades later, with how I’ve been exposed to music, the soul parts are amazing and the rock parts are unremarkable … evoking Elvis/Sun. The last track, He'll Have to Go, is the weakest here.

2,5

I want to drink red wine and cook dinner to this album.

Good times. Happy stuff

Just not my thing

this is one of my favorite genres of music.

Album recorded for the single. One good song, the rest, meh.

Le titre de l'album reflète parfaitement l'union du rock entraînant et joyeux au soul de certaines mélodies et paroles.

Great representation for early soul. Solomon Burke has a great voice and the songs are fine. But not much special going on and as an album it isn't really anything special. I like it but beyond singles not worth a revisit. 3 1=Crap that shouldn't be here 2=I didn't like it but get why it's here 3=I thought it was ok or even like it, get why it's here, but won't revisit 4=I like it, will revisit 5=This is some of the best music I've ever heard and will continue listening to it

Favorites: Cry to Me, You're Good for Me Not my thing by a long shot, but I can see why people would adore this type of music. I found a lot of it to be too simplistic for my tastes, and the short length of a lot of these songs leaves a lot to be desired for me. Of course, these were made in completely different times than now, but still.

Love that this song showed up in the man from uncle movie.

Great classic album

I see this guy has a huge Australian following. Interesting. I hear a few different styles on here. Definitely a bit of gospel, soul, and blues. My favorite is You Can't Love 'Em All. There's so much going on in that one. This was easy on the ears. I'll give it a 3.

I instantly recognized the opening track from the excellent Dirty Dancing soundtrack. I always liked that song, but didn't know anything else from this guy, so it was cool to listen to this album. Solid soul from the '60s.

slow not very fun. 2/5

I had never heard of Soloman Burke before today. I read up on him and it is stated he was the bridge between “mainstream” and “grittier” R&B. I’m not entirely sure what that means. It seems he peaked in the early 60s and while other bigger names (James Brown, Otis Redding,Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin) excelled, his career stalled. While I really enjoyed many of these songs and his voice, I cannot say I would put him heads and tails above others. Perhaps it is a case of “you had to have been there.” All that aside, this is an enjoyable album.

A very solid 4. Very much what it says on the title, though it leans more in the Soul direction. Just Out of Reach, Can't Nobody and Beautiful Brown Eyes were standouts for me. All of these songs sound perfect for a "the protagonist is about to die and has one dance with lover" scene's backing track. That or someone's about to commit mass murder. I enjoyed this, but again it does unfortunately suffer from being one drop in the ocean of 6/8 soul records which this era provided.

I love soul. But this just didn't gel with me as much as I was expecting. Maybe it's due to the fact this is my third album in a row of a similar genre, so I could just be fatigued. Don't get me wrong, Solomon's voice is incredible, but I genuinely couldn't distinguish it from any other soul or blues singer. It feels generic, which in a way, shows how powerful these soul singers are. Anyways, it was an enjoyable listen, but I can't see myself coming back. Sheer talent does give this credibility worthy of a 4.

Perhaps listening to this in a vacuum after two soul albums that I gave a 5 had left me feeling a bit harsh here, but I just thought this was consistently a good album, nothing that really blew me away but a quick and easy listen that I wouldn't mind listening to again in the future

Unremarkable.

Simultaneously 1001 continues to give me great new old Jazz, R&B, Soul albums in one hand and then in the other throws me an album that I only love song from. This is unfortunately the latter. Can't nobody love you is great, the rest is inoffensive and forgettable. 6/10

On first listen, this hit pretty hard but after multiple listens it is easy to see why soul artists like James Brown had more of a profile in the mainstream of music. This was a pleasant surprise and this feels like it was tailor-made to be on the Goodfellas soundtrack. Solomon Bourke's ability to change from silky smooth to just the right amount of rough with his voice is best demonstrated on Can't Nobody Love You, which is a song that commands you to sit there and really listen. It's not just Burke's voice and lyricism that makes this album great, but a tasteful blend of rock n roll influence in here really sets this apart from other soul albums. Granted, some parts of this album can just pass me by on re-listens but overall, this is a very fun experience. After reading about Solomon Bourke, especially his Olympic performance as a natalist, it seems that if he put in as much effort towards his performances as he did to the continuation of the human race he could have been as big a name as the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business, but I suppose the Hardest-Working Man in the Perinatal Ward is just as big a title. Highlights: Can't Nobody Love You, Won't You Give Him (One More Chance), You Can't Love Them All

Good

Fantastic soul record, and damn near perfect. Every song is a winner, just pretty samey throughout. Not much more to say.

A pure gem from an artist too much forgotten. A wonderful voice in the manner of Otis Redding or Percy Sledge.

The blues stuff was really fun, the soul part was a bit bland and sadly made up a large majority of the album

I am a big fan of this album. I love SB’s voice and this selection really shows it off. There are a lot of church phrasings and lyrics in there, which I enjoyed. The album could possibly have been a bit more polished in the production, but I love those rough edges that are on there. So that under produced vibe really works for me and especially with his voice. Weird to think this isn’t a greatest hits, because there isn’t a consistent sound on the album, and because it’s got the big hit Cry To Me on there. Love it.

Régi basic nem rossz lemez

Pretty good

"I fed you candy, you fed me dirt" is a freakin bar. Soul music is just better than all other music.

Never heard this yet feel like it’s been with me my whole life. Damn I’m a sucker for ‘60s soul. It’s just such a classic sound that I never get tired of. Wonderful singer too.

Lovely

4/5 liked the early soul sound

New to me and I like the album

honest to god what even happened in this album

Favorite track: Cry to me other picks: goodbye baby, if you need me, you're good for me

Soo schön.

ha sin name scho paarmol ghört aber nonie bewusst öpis vo ihm glost glaub. ui goodbye baby isch super schön? sp halt klassische soul. cry to me kenni shit da isch geil? er singt geeeeil. jerry wexler het chönne produziere d bgvs sind super disney style wooow goiiil. dieperkussive blöser sind geeeil. wont you give him isch chli cubano? dörfmer da sege? finds geil? gitarrepart tönt uuuhuere streng. if you need me het maltschik wie scho gmacht. song isch etz nöd soo geil. hard aint it hard au herzig wieder mega geili akustischi gitarre. find s loht chli noh aber isch immerno es seeehr guets soul album. und sini stimm isch fantastisch.

sorry 80 min prince chan ich mier gad nöd geh ABER 35 MIN ROCKNSOUL ouuh hert nöd zueglost upps finds sehr schön aber ebe, chli ah mier verbii won't you give him hani megaa schöne background gsang gfunde you can't love'em all hammeeer riiese stimm ja ich bin eifach ahfällig uf so warmi musig schwanke drum chli zwüscheme 3 undeme 4i die einzelne lieder findi nüt unglaaaublichs aber die ganz atmorpshäre findi suuper bins nomal am lose (so vill zude 35 min...) und goodbye baby isch suuper ALSO GUET KNAPPS 4 FUCK SOMEONE TO LOVE ME ISCH JA SO SCHÖN

Behagelig

Great

I love his voice and the songs are catchy

Classic post doowap should album. Very much enjoyed it.

Never heard of this guy but would listen again

Mercifully short, as this is exactly the sort of music that I despise. I hated the backing vocals, the badly-dated lyrics, the awful production, and the musical arrangements. The singer kept this from 1 star, but honestly it was close.

point6.

in one ear and out the other

Great tunes, but in that "early days of pop music" it's just a bunch of good songs together instead of, like, an album with shape? Dunno. Whatever, "no" skips, but also too much of a good thing - by the time I got to the end I was like, "ok, I got it, this song isn't bringing me anything new."

this is really good. It sounds so familiar, and I feel like It's Hank Williams? I assume hank stole this sound, but I'm not trying to be woke... don't know, but I really like his voice and the style. great album.

Really fun to listen to! 4/5

Loved this album. Will definitely listen to more of his stuff.

This guy got tons of ass. Metric tons. So much power and conviction, up there with Percy and Wilson.

I would like Solomon Burke if I enjoyed this Genre of music. I just don’t tho

Great pipes! Love this genre of music…

Not someone I was familiar with but was impressed with the tunes and singing

Wow! How did I miss Solomon Burke this whole time. Perfectly balanced, soulful voice. Great instrumentation, well written songs, amazing backup singers. Excellent production on this album. One of my new favorites. I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never heard of him before.

it was really good and pleasant. I knew some but the rest was really good

Good stuff. Melodic, nice harmonies, and Burke has a rich voice. The production was complex but not overdone, and I could hear the guitar clearly in some songs. I listened to it twice.

This is classic early rock and roll/soul sound. It’s good/ok, but nothing that blew me away.

Classic sounds. Very well done. Very strong album.

Solid soul. He has a powerful voice. I think Otis is more my speed though.

Didn't do much for me, but clearly great voice

magnificent, soul infused with gospel, and the best songs also have a country flavour

I feel like a 3/5 stars is always a cop out for anything this old. But Ive said this before and I’ll say it again - it’s hard to judge records like these and feel like I have anything meaningful to contribute. So I try to treat these as opportunities to be thankful for how much variety is at my fingertips - I listened to some very cool 90’s dub techno right after this. The best song on here, to my ears, is “Beautiful Brown Eyes”. It felt the most complete and varied from start to finish. 3/5.

What an amazing singer! Love how he goes from smooth & silky to rough & ready. Prefer the rougher sound but overall a great record. Favorites: Cry to Me, If You Need Me Would I listen to it again: Yes

Smooth, really nice. 3-4 rounded up

Really good for Sam Cooke impersonator

Good production and great vocals, but it wasn't really my kind of music.

Fine album. Solomon's voice is pretty good, but there wasn't much that stood out to me on Rock 'n Soul. I do have an issue with using a fade out as a way to end a song, and that particular method was definitely over-employed on this album. No artist would realistically perform a song live this way, so what's so difficult about replacing the monotonous last 15 seconds of slow fade with 4-8 measures and a cadence?

Great voice, great listen, just a fantastic smooth sound. I love the R&B/Soul music of the 50's through the early 80's. This is the kind of music you just play all day long and it never seems to get old. This has redneck pool day written all over it. My first experience, that I can recall with Solomon and he reminds me a bit of Sam Cooke with the occasional yell of Little Richard. Really enjoyed my listens and reminded me it's been awhile since I have binged out on some good classis R&B.. Thank you Solomon. Very good, relaxing album. 4

3 I’ve never heard of Solomon Burke, but I’ve now seen a few reviewers stress both him and this album as important pieces of musical history for their role in shaping soul music. Considering when this came out, I can’t say that I disagree, but I also can’t help but wonder if he’s being given perhaps a bit too much credit considering James Brown and Sam Cooke had already been doing this kind of thing for a couple of years now. Hell, Sam Cooke even had an album literally entitled “Mr. Soul” that came out a year prior. That’s not to say this album is unenjoyable or unimportant by any means, but overall it just doesn’t feel quite as significant or all that captivating to me as compared to the albums we’ve heard from JB & SC on this list. Granted, theirs were both live albums, so that may have played a factor - maybe I just need to hear my guy Sol perform live to get it as well, but unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like he has any from this era. Still, this certainly has that classic soul sound to it we all know and love, but in this case it’s just associated with a disjointed assortment of good, but not great tracks. You start on a high note with Cry to Me, which is probably the best song here and also one that I’m pretty sure I’ve heard at some point or another, but things quickly get pretty middling from there. It never turned into anything that I disliked, but it also never really turned into anything that I found remarkable either. I did dig the backing vocalists that were featured on a lot of the songs, especially the one in particular that had the call and “Dum Dum” response kind of thing going on, but I couldn’t point you to which track that was now if I tried. Not something I would call great or important myself, but it’s certainly not bad.

This was a fantastic album, loved it from start to finish.

nice

Ok, 3/5

Wow!

hell yeah, smooth as butter. 4.5 stars

Cry to Me is a masterpiece

I'm not a big fan of the 50's sound music, but this album is from 1964 so everything it's cool. A great listening experience, with a rich musical performance and songs that are going to touch your heart if you give them the oportunity. Solomon Burke it's one of the fathers of R&B, so if you enjoy that kind of music this album it's perfect for you.

I liked the first song then got annoyed in the middle and had tuned it out by the end and didn't notice it had stopped playing

holy get this guy a lady to cuddle asap man is struggling

A nice soul album, nothing really stood out but it was a good listen. Maybe if I knew more about soul I'd be more favourable

Reminds me of Martin and he introduced me to Cry to Me, raspy voice that works well with the album vibe. 3.5

Burke leans more into the soul here, but that’s just fine by me. Sultry vocal delivery on top of top tier 60s Motown production is plenty to keep me invested.

The King of Rock 'n' Soul lives up to his royal title here, delivering passionate performances steeped in soul, gospel, and R&B with a commanding presence and heartfelt conviction.

This album really isn't my genre, but I appreciate its technique. The percussion is layered and complex. The vocal harmonies have a great texture that's totally absent from contemporary music. There are some interesting threads to Western music. This album really tells stories. I don't know if all those stories resonate with me personally, and the tempo is a little slow for me, but it does what it sets out to do.

I can't deny there's greatness in here. I'd be happy to hear any of these songs pop up in a music mix. But I don't know if I needed to listen through an entire album; as a whole, it didn't particularly transport me.

Awesome

Nothing really special to me. Easy listening, good blues/soul rock.

Liked this a lot. Not too frantic, not all blues, good voice, good backup singers.

Rock n soul is right! Letterlijk early 60s soul met early 60s rock elementen. Met voor de tijd ook een fenomenale zanger en hele goeie instrumentatie en orchestratie. Een heel relaxte luister en zeker de 35 minuten waard. Niet veel uitblinkers naar mijn idee behalve het eerste nummer cry to me. Het heeft naar mijn idee niet hoog genoege hoogtes behaalt om het een 5 te geven maar een heel goed uitgevoerd album. Daarom geef ik het een 4,5/5 sterren

Very nice listen, especially for the time period. Quite clear how this would have inspired quite a lot of different artists.

Ok this was awesome and don’t come at me w the Marvin Gaye rating! Cry to Me is one of my favorite songs of all time (thanks, Dirty Dancing) and He’ll Have to Go is an absolute anthem- although Jim Reeves nailed it harder? Lol is that how you say it? Still

Really liked this

I'm souled on it.

Inget starkare intryck. Gammaldags easy listening. Trea

First track is a banger

Solomon rest his soul is flat out amazing.

Solid album

Soul, Schnulz, 1964 -> 2

pretty good. not much to say really.

Ganz okay.

Despite listening to a lot of soul over the years, I am not hugely familiar with Solomon Burke, other than a couple of singles, and this album possibly explains why. The record is actually a collection of singles rather than a true album, and they range from the sublime "Cry To Me", an excellent version of "He'll Have to Go", to the merely good. And they are all good but nothing really memorable songwise. Solomon's voice is excellent, somewhere between Ray Charles and James Brown but some of the arrangements are a little tired. Enjoyable but not going to rival Otis Redding, or Wilson Pickett, or Aretha in my collection.

Ok but nothing earth shattering

Cry To Me, naturally, is a classic. But I was disappointed by the rest of the album.

Not my favorite genre, but was fun nonetheless. We listened to it in the morning and had a dance party with Simon

Rustig, mooi album

It's ok. A soul album from the 60s not a lot to talk about here it's good background music. 5/10 Favourite: None Least Favourite: You Can't Love Them All

Great album, brilliant voice and great tracks to go with it. Winced every time he says "little girl" though which is quite a bloody lot

solid mid 60s soul album. solomon burke has a great voice and it is definitely showcased here. the highlights to me were "cry to me" "if you need me" and "goodbye baby" - all great soul songs. the lowlight for me was "just out of reach" which was a bizarre early 60s style pop song that does not fit the rest of the album. anyways, it's fun, it's pretty quick. it's nothing mindblowing, but it's good!

Wonderful voice. I like the range and variety. Solid!

Zeer solid, allemaal hitjes, zeer soul, pretty rock. Weinig op aan te merken 8.8/10

Giving me fallout vibes

Incredible album! This is the type of music that you can listen to a million times and still love it. 8.7/10

I liked this. I am a big soul fan, and this is smooth and fun.

Fine for old ballads

Big fan of his 2002 album Don’t give up on me, but not really visited his original period. Fantastic voice. 4 Star

Somehow have never heard of this guy, but I certainly knew the first song as most of us of a certain age and proclivity do from Dirty Dancing. What a powerful voice, loved it.

This was super lovely <3

I liked all of them

only heard his later stuff but this was real nice!

This album is such an enjoyable listen. And I'm ashamed to admit, I somehow had never heard of Solomon Burke before this. His voice is rich, he has great range, and the melodies and little guitar riffs were quite catchy. This is very close to being a five-star album for me; there really isn't a bad song in the album. The only reason I'm not giving it the masterpiece treatment is because the sound is a bit homogenous, and it kind of wore on me by the end despite the runtime being on the shorter end. I'll definitely be listening to this one again very soon. 4.5 stars.

Beautiful example of soul, and an incredible voice from Solomon Burke. Every song is good here.

Good album I got into the vibe, wasn't really focus on it or on the lyrics but I did enjoy listening to it. Good job my dude Solomon !

Great voice Soul sounds kinda always the same tbh Often catchy tho!

*carlton dancing gif*

Typ Elvis. Ganske nice

This and a coffee on the porch on a nice fall morning would end wars

youll have to goooooooooooo

Magical voice, wonderful album

3,5

Great voice, a bit boring though.

Not really my kind of music but still enjoyed

Another one of those albums where I had to try and think of how ground breaking these sounds would’ve been. Guy has a fine voice and there’s some fine songs on here. Not entirely my thing

Terrible

Overall good but weird vibes and too sad for me

Would I listen again: no Deserves to be on this list: Yes 3.0

general: this album feels like falling in love with someone, spending the rest of your lives together, and now ur 80yrs old & slow dancing with them in ur living room literally added every song to my 50s playlist top 3: cant nobody love you if you need me beautiful brown eyes

6/10 general : slaytastic favs : You're Good For Me; Just Out of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)

Really enjoyable listen. Blends gospel, blues, soul, and rock into a sound that feels timeless. Burke's smooth voice is just icing on the cake.

Unremarkable music from the 60s, enjoyable, generic

This sounds fine, but it did not stand out at all.

A very soulful voice worthy of a 5:)

Not my scene

Solomon Burke er en dyktig sanger og det er kjekt å høre på ham. Instrumentalene er kliniske, uinteressante og mangler energi. Jeg ble også etter hvert lei av de konstante støttevokalistene.

Good vintage R&B. No complaints.

Very nice soul voice and generally an enjoyable album. Just not a lot stood out to me which means that I probably won't remember this in a few weeks Standouts Cry to Me 3/5

Fantastic album. Hadn’t heard this before

I think this is that old time rock and roll that Bob Seger was singing about. It's okay, I guess. I'm not going to seek it out again, though.

smooth and nice, but doesn't leave much of an impression

There are two artists from the early blues and soul era I wish I knew about when I got started enjoying the genre almost 2 decades ago. Sister Rosetta Thorpe and Solomon Burke. Burke on this album is rock and rockabilly rythmns combined with pure gospel and soul up front. His powerful voice has natural distortion that cuts through, and may have been difficult to record but it is so iconic. Monotonous and repetitive sure, but that is what was in style at the time. This album can heal a broken heart, or allow it to wallow in pitty for quite along time. Big fan.

This had about two songs that I dug, but overall, soul is not music that resonates with me for more than a song or two.

Cry to Me

> the Beatles

The songs would be great to listen to individually as Burke's got a GREAT voice, but as an album it got a little too repetitive

Enjoyable time, even if most songs were about being separated from a woman in one way or another. Had a bit of a timeless feel to them. I hope I can remember the artists name in a week or so

Wow! I feel quite ashamed I didn’t know Solomon Burke and interestingly I read online he has been described as ‘soul’s most unfairly overlooked singer’. Well I’m glad I know him now because this was awesome. Obviously akin to many of my favourites like Redding and Brown. Fun and passionate, my top tracks were probably Cry to Me and Goodbye Baby.

This is a great album that's so much fun to listen to. It's so soulful. Liked Songs Added: Cry To Me Hard, Ain't It Hard

Liked it

3.75

First listen

Not like ~really~ my thing, probably won't end up listening to this that that much in the future. Weird blind-spot for me though have heard plenty of the Ray Charles/Sam Cooke/Otis Redding stuff but literally had no clue who this was. Incredible vocals. Really liked "You're Good for Me" especially. Great stuff.

I love Solomon’s voice, despite moments where I think he overdoes it in his phrasing. This album was released in 1964, but it sounds like it’s an old soul & R&B album from a decade earlier, and that’s a good thing. There’s an authenticity that shines throughout. Having said that, the weakness of the album is the mixed song choices. Some songs hit, but there’s a bit of filler too.

These cover-saturated singer-showcase albums are a wrestle between A&R conservatism and the juice and individualism of the players. Burke’s throttle control is marvellous, a different voice for every task - he could whisper a yell or mutter a wail - and some of the instrumentation brings my ears to their feet, the spidery guitar on “Won’t You Give Him (One More Chance)” deserves credit that the notes don’t give them. However, the songs themselves are unremarkable. A close listen to the makers has its rewards, but the content doesn’t excite me.

Lots of belters, not quite as many bangers. great sound though!

good listen

good, I prob wont revisit though. I thought I was gonna love it but it got a little old after a few songs. not bad though, maybe a little too similar though throughout

Pretty good. I'd relisten

This was nice, but nothing super special. Would relisten

I really enjoyed this one. Great stuff.

I've never heard of Solomon Burke before, but I tend to like soul music, so I'm hopeful that I'll enjoy this album! Well, unfortunately, I thought this album was pretty boring, and it really missed the mark with me. I thought Solomon Burke's singing was good and that he had a unique and interesting approach to soul music, but I found this album pretty flat and dull. The songwriting wasn't particularly sharp, which wasn't Solomon's fault since he didn't write any of the songs, but I felt like all of these songs followed the borning format of stereotypical late fifties and early sixties R&B and pop. Musically, there wasn't much going on either, and Solomon's vocals just weren't enough to interest me and keep me engaged.

Very enjoyable. Great voice.

I didn't know what to expect. Pleasantly surprised. Cry to me sounds like a song that Baby and the Swayze would dirty dance to at the summer resort. It's fun, but ultimately I got bored.

Nice, nice, nicer than nice. Love it.

They do try to squeeze a lot of songs into 35 minutes. The man's a really good singer, and the backing vocals are classic for the time. A good show.

Soul music and me don’t really get on. There are one or two Soul classics which I do like but as a genre I have always avoided it unless it was impossible to do so in nightclubs etc. What I have never done though is dismiss Soul artists for their musical greatness. I accept that many Soul artists are some of the best musicians that ever lived and will be remembered for all time. Solomon Burke although I don’t know much about him, surely is one of these greats. I can hear this in this album regardless of the fact that I would have preferred to have spent this time listening to the likes of Pink Floyd. The album cover is very 60’s. Made me think of the record shops in those days. At least 4 or 5 in every town but all were set out traditionally with records in artist order and a delight to spend hours searching through the LP’s. Many were like this one with the track list on the front so time could be saved not having to also look at the records rear unless you really were going to buy it. A popular song title written on the front would aid this decision to purchase or not. 2/5 18/3/25

3.5* 83%

Sweet, deep, love songs. Loved this.

Really enjoyed

Very dated soul music. Alright. Glad it’s over

Definitely a lot more Soul than Rock on this one. Was short enough and didn't irritate but there's not much here to get excited about. Can't remember any songs standing out. So a nailed on 2.

Nice voice, nice bit of swing and vibe, but every song is almost exactly the same. Nothing stood out at all.

Great voice and nice enough, just very dated and not my thing.

Smooth and soulful. What more do you want.

I liked!

it’s aight

Really cool to see the predecessor to so many iconic melodies in later decades. I liked the jazzy vibes mixed with country elements. Would listen again

Wonderful soul album, really enjoy "Just out of reach", feels like a nice movie song. I also like "Can't nobody love you" (seems like I am a fan of the backing chorus in contrast with his voice). "Can't love em" all reminds me of the Beatles' "All my loving". Album does a great job of evoking emotions, has fun rhyming lyrics, and the singer has a rich and expressive voice. 4/5

Mix of blues and soul.

This guy has powerful voice and deep emotional vibe. His ability to convey raw emotion and vulnerability through powerful storytelling solidified his legacy as one of soul music's greatest icons.

Good, strong, sexy music. Every song looks like a foreplay song. And every single one is too-too-too strong! This is how soul should look like, not like that whiny Marvin Gaye who gave me hemorrhoids yesterday. I will definitely listen to this again!

Solid.

I LOVE old school rhythm and blues. So much soul and passion. I love that the vocals are soft and smooth, yet gritty and powerful. The background harmonies are great. Catchy guitar riffs.

Cracking voice, not sure it did quite enough for me to properly love it

Very good, soulful, and energetic at times. Rock 'N Soul is a good name for the album. Likes: Cry to Me, If You Need Me, Can't Nobody Love You, You're Good for Me

Not for me.

Not for me

Soul/R&B

Bit too old for me but still good

Meh. standard Soul stuff, not bad but also not interesting

Decent, but doesn't really float my boat

Solid mid 60s soul record.

He's got a great voice; I don't know why he wasn't a bigger star.

Wish I enjoyed this more. The man sure can ballad! (21 known/36 new)

kan er geen kwaad woord over zeggen... niet mijn stijl, maar groovde en swingde als geen ander

++: Cry to Me, Won't You Give Him (One More Chance), Hard, Ain't It Hard, Can't Nobody Love You, Just Out of Reach, Beautiful Brown Eyes, He'll Have to Go +: Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye), If You Need Me, You're Good for Me, You Can't Love Them All, Someone to Love Me 7,6/10

Yes!! This is exactly my type of oldies for a Monday morning. :)

solid soul

Enjoyable, simple, possibly ground-breaking, but quickly surpassed by the soul greats like Sam Cooke, Otis, and Wilson Pickett.

Enjoyed this

Último día de febrero y nos vamos con otro artista que desconozco por completo. Su currículum habla por él y desde la primera canción se nota: voz grave, puramente sentimental, ideal para acompañar una velada íntima. Hermosa manera de despedir el mes. Hasta la semana que viene, que empezará el miércoles.

Meh

Ehhhh

Норм. Лучшая песня - Cry to Me.

Kinda surprised how much I liked this one. There were some really good songs on this, I'll have to listen to it again sometime.

Nice R’n’B

4/5

Excelente álbum de soul de los 60. Nunca había escuchado a Solomon Burke, el "Rey del Rock'n'Soul", y la verdad es que hace honor a su apodo. Es un soul apasionado, y aunque los acompañamientos no es que sean una locura, su voz, su talento y su actitud compensan por ello más que de sobra. Pero también es cierto que hay muchos álbumes parecidos de esta época, así que vamos a dejarlo en 3.5.

This guy’s really in love and pretty sad about it

The background vocals were okay but they could be annoying at times. Also, the guitarist was not that great. That being said, Solomon Burke definitely applied his training from the church in his vocals to cut through the subpar background vocals and instrumentals.

Saai, niet boeiend, geen pakkende nummers. Verder niet verschrikkelijk om naar te luisteren.

Some good 50s soul. Very impressive voice, but songwriting and instrumentation aren't exactly outstanding to make this a great album. Best Tracks: - Cry To Me Worst Tracks: N/A Rating: 5/10

Some great production on the songs makes them sound rich while his voice still has a nice raw blues edge.

What a lovely voice, very enjoyable to listen to.

Great album, really enjoyable listen.

would listen to again

This album was good. It brings back childhood times of getting in the car with my grandma, as she has the 60's on 6 channel playing. The singers voice is good as well, but I'd have to be in a certain mood to listen to something like this. 3.25 Favorite Songs: Someone to Love Me, Beautiful Brown Eyes Least Favorite: Won't You Give Him (One More Chance)

Not really aged well, it’s just fine but not very interesting to listen to.

I love the sound and this style of music. Could listen to it all day. So while this is just average for the genre as a whole it is still quite enjoyable.

A great soul album, I enjoyed it.

bluesy goodness

This felt like classic 60’s music. Cry to me is always a jam.

Some of these older albums that are selected are the "sound old but also sound modern" variety ... not this one, this old. Case in point - these dudes are still calling their sexual partners "little girl" (*pukingemoji*). Also You Can't Love 'Em All is both problematic and wrong - of course you can when they all got the eyes for you like he says. 2/5

If I wanted to listen to Duran Duran, I would have…

Enjoyed it

Very good

way more about soul then rock, in fact this is more mellow then it is anything which i didnt quite expect. this tbh maybe lacks standout features in general (aside from the fact that burke's personal life as a mortician and a reverend and a father of 21 children is pretty wild), but its hard to go wrong with this type of music in general. some v beautiful tracks, a predictably great vocal performance (im mostly unsure about the backing singers tbh! they kind of clutter it up), and just a convincingly smoldering, carnal lover vibe In General which makes me wonder what this guy's sermons were like.

If You Need Me // Can’t Nobody Love You // Someone To Love Me // Won’t You Give Him (One More Chance) //

Det här är Sol. Eller Seoul kanske det heter?

I’ve always really enjoyed that soul sound, the playing, the singing, great!

Never really checked out Solomon Burke before and now regret not having done it sooner.

I don't think I've heard much (or perhaps any) of Solomon Burke before, so it's very nice to get what's effectively a best-of album of his hits (and best to simply ignore whether this album violates the project's rule on greatest-hits/compilation albums). Despite a few oddball tracks ("Just out of reach" in particular), this is a great collection of soul/R&B/rock songs sung by a clearly talented artist.

I was hoping to like this more than I did--not enough soul in the soul or rock in the rock for my taste.

Nice powerful voice. But terrible songs.

Didn’t know Idles covered his song. Really good easy listening. Would recommend.

A great soul album fr its era.really nice melodies and singing.

The album is fine. It basically sits perfectly in the middle of the bell curve.

OVERALL: Very good, but a lot of the songs just aren't memorable. Every song here is incredible in some way, and Solomon Burke's voice is absolutely stunning. The biggest problem with this is the microphone peaking, which is kinda distracting and definitely takes away from it. It also doesn't really work as an album, more as a collection of singles, but that's fine. The lyrics are definitely basic, but his voice more than makes up for it. Also fade out outros are extremely common, but that's more of a personal vendetta. Just Out Of Reach, Beautiful Brown Eyes, Cry To Me, Someone To Love Me, and You're Good For Me are absolutely incredible songs and bring this up to a 4, their instrumental and vocals are just way too good to give the album anything lower. SONG AVG: 8.625/10 PERSONAL RATING: 8/10 Goodbye Baby: He has a great voice. The instrumental is very simple but also very nice, and works very well with his voice. Pretty good backing vocals. It does use a fade out outro though. 7.75/10 Cry To Me: Fantastic instrumental, and the vocals are, once again, incredible. It does sound like something that would play in a retirement home, but that is kinda given with music from this time. Sounds really good, but it still uses a fade out outro. 9.25/10 Won't You Give Him (One More Chance): I have a feeling that every song here will end in a fade out outro. Anyways, the backing vocals have more of a focus on this, and they are pretty good. Obviously, his voice is fantastic, and the instrumental is pretty nice but a little basic. Also the lyrics are very basic so far, but I guess I was kinda expecting it. 8/10 If You Need Me: I have nothing different to say about this one, great voice, instrumental, and backing vocals. Uses a fade out outro. 7.75/10 Hard, Ain't It Hard: See above. The instrumental and backing vocals are really good here. 8/10 Can't Nobody Love You: Same rating as If You Need Me, but everything is better. His vocals are really good here, and the instrumental is more interesting. 8.5/10 Just Out Of Reach: I listened to this right after watching the Kendrick halftime show, so uhhhhhhh. The instrumental is incredible, and works very well with his voice. Speaking of which, this song probably has the best vocals so far. For some reason it reminds me of a Christmas song. Also, it doesn't use a fade out outro. 10/10 You're Good For Me: See above, but it uses a fade out outro. His vocal performance is maybe a bit worse, but the instrumental more than makes up for it. 9.25/10 You Can't Love Them All: Pretty solid, but the microphone peaking is especially noticeable here. The backing vocals are sometimes corny, but they're usually fine. 7/10 Someone To Love Me: Just really good overall, and the guitar is weird but works well. Probably the best lyrics so far. 9.25/10 Beautiful Brown Eyes: Very beautiful, the instrumental is basically just Just Out Of Reach 2. His vocals here are my favorite on the album, and the only complaint is the fade out outro. There isn't really anything I don't like about this except for the fade out outro. 9.9/10 He'll Have To Go: Possibly the best instrumental on this album, beautiful strings that work very well. Works fairly well as the outro. 8.85/10

Ik hou niet zo van Rock n Roll. Maar Rock n Soul is goed te verteren! Sowieso scheelt het dat Solomon echt een werkelijk fantastische stem heeft. Doorspekt met soul en emotie, deze man kan het telefoonboek voorlezen en ik zou het geweldig vinden! De nummers zijn kort, maar daardoor wel precies lang genoeg om de aandacht erbij te houden. Het album zelf is maar net iets langer dan een half uur en meer hoeft ook niet van me. Na dit album wil ik niet perse meer, ik ben gewoon blij met wat ik heb gehad. Dat is ook meteen het enige puntje van kritiek, het lijkt na afloop allemaal iets te veel op elkaar en dat houdt het weg van 5 sterren, maar dat dit een welverdiende 4 is, dat staat buiten kijf! FAVO: Cry to me, If you need me, Can't nobody love you, Someone to love me, You're good for me,

Never got into Metallica

Mmmmm, old soul music.

Old rock.

Not the most groundbreaking, but I don’t think that’s what he was going for and if you just sit back and enjoy the music, you’ll see that it’s really just a good time. I love this, it’s great. 4/5

Pretty standard blues stuff. Really not much to comment on. This was fine, but boring.

There are some straight bangers on this album and some duds. Starts strong with “Cry to Me,” and then is somewhat uneven for me after that, but overall strong. 3 stars alone for that song. The rest of the album is not bad-probably 3.75 overall.

Deep soulful romance. Really enjoyed this. Such talent. This is what all those white hippies thought they sounded like.

very pleasant soul

Beautifully sung album that puts you in good mood. Set nicely with the backing singers to give a pure soul.

It's ok, good back ground music but I don't think I'll listen again

Wonderful voice. Comfortable to listen to

It's decent enough, but I will remove it from my personal 1001 and sub in Herbie Hancock Empyrean Isles, which is not on this list, which is crazy. Its record is a 3/5. Some folks argue it is understated, but I get confused when Hancock's seminal hard bop record is snubbed for this. Google best of '64 lists. The author of this list seriously dropped the ball. There are only seven records from '64, yet Steely Dan makes the list twice. So Can't Buy a Thrill is a more critical record than Herbie Hancock's Empyrean Isles; sure thing, pal.

Es simplemente arte, no hay más que decir, pensé que esto solo iba a ser rock y afortunadamente llegó esto. Canción favorita: Won't You Give Him (One More Chance) Rating: 9.5

A relaxing and soul album, but nothing special. Production isn't great, though it was made in the 60s.