Solomon Burke "Home In Your Heart" The Best Of 1992

Without question, Solomon Burke is the most unfairly overlooked singer of soul's golden age. This definitive double CD proves it, including all of his best recorded for the Atlantic label between 1962 and 1968: the insanely accusatory "The Price," the Nashville Sounding "Just Out Of Reach," the romantically devout "Hanging Up My Heart," and more than three dozen others, all of them as Wilson Pickett-hard or, when it's called for, Sam Cooke-sweet as needed, and always drawing on the intense emotional testifying Burke had refined as a boy preacher. --David Cantwell, Amazon.comOf the great stars of the 1960s soul movement, Solomon Burke isn't as well-remembered as many of his peers, most likely because he had relatively minor success in the crossover marketplace (never scoring a Top 20 pop hit), and he faded from view on the R&B charts by the early '70s. But if Burke's impact was somewhat narrow, it was also quite deep; he was hugely popular in the deep south, a potent live attraction across the country, and (after Ray Charles) one of the first major attractions at Atlantic Records, who helped define the label's signature polished-but-deeply soulful sound. Burke also had, quite simply, one of the finest voices in popular music, a rich and resonant instrument that possessed a churchy authority that was the ideal match for his material, which balanced the pleasures of the flesh with the price of transgression. While Burke made solid albums after leaving Atlantic, his tenure at that label remains his strongest and most rewarding period, and Home in Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke is a superbly compiled and annotated two-disc set that cherrypicks 40 superb selections from Burke's Atlantic archive, including the epochal "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love," "Just out of Reach (Of My Two Empty Arms)," "Cry to Me," "The Price," "If You Need Me," and many more. Someday, some archivist should go through Burke's long out-of-print sides for MGM, Bell, Chess, Dunhill, and other labels and create a compilation that will fill in the gaps of Burke's "lost years" before his re-emergence in the mid-'80s, but for the meantime Home in Your Heart: The Best of Solomon Burke remains the best place to start exploring his body of work, and it's a remarkable collection of Southern soul at its finest. --Mark Deming, AllMusic (Rating: 4,5/5 stars)trax disc: 1

1. Home In Your Heart 2. Down In The Valley 3. Looking For My Baby 4. I'm Hanging Up My Heart For You 5. Cry To Me 6. Just Out Of Reach (Of My Two Open Arms) 7. Goodbye Baby (Baby Goodbye) 8. Words 9. Stupidity 10. Send Me Some Loving 11. Go On Back To Him 12. Baby (I Wanna Be Loved) 13. Can't Nobody Love You 14. Got To Get You Off My Mind 15. Someone To Love Me 16. You're Good For Me 17. Dance Dance Dance 18. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love 19. Tonight's The Night 20. Baby, Come On Home 21. If You Need Me 22. The Price

trax disc: 2

1. Get Out Of My Life Woman 2. Save It 3. Take Me (Just As I Am) 4. When She Touches Me 5. I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) 6. Party People 7. Keep A Light In The Window 8. I Feel A Sin Comming On 9. Meet Me In Church 10. Someone Is Watching 11. Detroit City 12. Shame On Me 13. I Stayed Away Too Long 14. It's Just A Matter Of Time 15. Since I Met You Baby 16. Time Is A Thief 17. Woman, How Do You Make Me Love You Like I Do 18. It's Been A Change 19. What'd I Say

...served by Toxxy...