http://www.thekingsolomonburke.com/bio.htmSolomon Burke
Make Do With What You Got
With the release of Make Do With What You Got, veteran soul music revelator Solomon Burke once again provides a powerful set that both reflects his unparalleled past achievements and attains a higher artistic plateau. Presented with a warm, after-hours feel from a funky-tight sextet, Burke’s incomparable vocals float with an intimate grace, grind down to the gritty rock valley bottom and deliver soul-stirring testimonials of abiding hope. Drawn from the work of some of the 20th century’s most vaunted songwriters, Hank Williams and Bob Dylan among them, the ten tracks play as a series of messages conveyed in oracular metaphor that, coming at a critically uncertain moment in history, strive to manifest the understanding and endurance so sorely needed.
Produced by the prolific and celebrated studio auteur Don Was, Make Do With What You Got is a dazzling confluence of masterly technique, top degree talent and exemplary material. Burke’s mixture of elevated spirituality and earthy passion transports even as it penetrates to the essential core of human vulnerability and emotion; Burke’s ability to imbue a lyric with profound gravity, achieved by his gospel-informed phrasing and instinct for creating a purely empathic listener reaction, is precisely what has always distinguished him as soul music‘s preeminent stylist. Always an undeniable force, his natural voltage and peerless virtuosity remain nothing short of arresting.
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