ARTIST: Solomon Burke
TITLE: Make Do With What You Got
LABEL: Shout! Factory
GENRE: Soul
BITRATE: 186kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 44min total
RELEASE DATE: 01 Mar 2005
RIP DATE: 13 Feb 2005
Track List
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01. I Need Your Love In My Life 4:19
02. What Good Am I? 3:40
03. It Makes No Difference 5:27
04. Let Somebody Love Me 4:28
05. After All These Years 4:37
06. Fading Footsteps 3:59
07. At The Crossroads 4:58
08. I Got The Blues 4:11
09. Make Do With What You Got 4:34
10. Wealth Won't Save Your Soul 3:59
Release Notes:
The self-proclaimed "King of Rock 'n' Soul" upholds his
title on this follow-up to his 2002 Grammy-winning
comeback, Don't Give Up on Me. At 64, Solomon Burke's
voice still has an electric crackle. Every low purr and
keening near-falsetto that he applied to a string of hits
between 1961 and 1968 that helped build Atlantic Records
remains intact. In fact, if anything, he's more persuasive
and versatile today. Burke breathes zestful life into
material as diverse as the opening stomp, "I Need Your Love
in My Life," the testifying "Let Somebody Love Me," a sweet
reading of the Band's "It Makes No Difference," and Hank
Williams Sr.'s country-gospel "Wealth Won't Save Your
Soul"--the latter of which Burke, who's an ordained bishop,
takes to church with a soaring organ-driven arrangement.
Producer Don Was draws on the classic Stax and Muscle Shoals
sounds, using keyboards and guitars--the latter played by Ray
Parker Jr. and Shoals veteran Reggie Young--to underscore
Burke's powerful vocal melodies. And the bloodlines of
classic Memphis propulsion run through drummer James Gadson's
veins. With such superb accomplices Burke doesn't just make
do... he makes great music.