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Solomon Burke, Don't Give Up on Me
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1649225
Disk length: 51m 42s (11 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2002
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Don't Give Up on Me | 3:45 |
| 2. Fast Train | 5:43 |
| 3. Diamond in Your Mind | 4:24 |
| 4. Flesh and Blood | 6:07 |
| 5. Soul Searchin' | 3:59 |
| 6. Only a Dream | 5:09 |
| 7. The Judgement | 3:30 |
| 8. Stepchild | 5:10 |
| 9. The Other Side of the Coin | 3:46 |
| 10. None of Us Are Free | 5:29 |
| 11. Sit This One Out | 4:33 |
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Review
Of all the great male '60s soul singers--a short list that includes Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, and James Brown--only Solomon Burke still actively records. More amazing, he's produced his best full-length album with Don't Give Up on Me. It's easy to give some credit to the album's star songwriters, who include Burke fans Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Van Morrison, Brian Wilson, and Bob Dylan. But really it's the quality of the songs and Burke himself, one of the most versatile and charismatic singers around, that make this album so special.
The 11 songs range from the lazy, seductive plea of the title track and the gravelly gospel of "Diamond in Your Mind" to the country-soul of "Other Side of the Coin" and the civil-rights-era urgency of "None of Us Are Free." Joe Henry's production is suitably subdued, and the instrumentation--generally guitar, bass, drums, organ, and piano--is sympathetic throughout. And if you doubt that Burke is the real star in a room crowded with those folks, consider this: the two slightest tracks here were written by Wilson and Costello, while one of the best, the album-closing "Sit This One Out," was written by someone named Pick Purnell. A great album not fixed in the past or fully of this decade, Don't Give Up is a crowning achievement of an R&B pioneer who has returned to reclaim his self-bestowed title from the '60s: "The King of Rock and Soul." --Keith Moerer
Other Versions
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
Tracks: 11, Disk length: 51m 42s
Tracks: 11, Disk length: 51m 45s (+0m 3s)
Tracks: 11, Disk length: 52m 3s (+0m 21s)
Tracks: 11, Disk length: 52m 22s (+0m 40s)
Tracks: 11, Disk length: 50m 56s (-1m 14s)
Tracks: 16 (+5 tracks), Disk length: 1h 10m 23s (+18m 41s)
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