Solomon BurkeBest Solomon Burke Albums Ranked
7.1
Avg Score
10
Opinions
12
Albums
4
Reviewers
Summary from 10 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Solomon Burke’s catalog across 12 albums from 10 opinions, with an overall average of 7.1/10. The top-rated Solomon Burke album is Don't Give up on Me (2002) with a 8.3/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Nashville and Make Do With What You Got. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1964 to 2010.
Don't Give up on Me
“If you’re a songwriter and one day the phone rings and somebody tells you soul giant Solomon Burke is recording again and looking for songs, you really have only one option: Get busy. Even if you’re Brian Wilson, Elvis Costello or Tom Waits. Burke is the rare singer who makes songwriters sound wise beyond their […]”
Nashville
“Compared to some of his fellow R&B giants, Solomon Burke doesn’t bring depth of feeling to his music so much as an extraordinary ability to sell a song — remember, this is the same guy who used to sell bologna sandwiches to his bandmates on long bus rides. Wherever it comes from, his music is […]”
Make Do With What You Got
“Solomon Burke’s 2002 album Don’t Give Up on Me was a righteous resurrection of a great Atlantic Sixties soulman who never got his full due from a rock world he so heavily influenced. Make Do With What You Got proves that Burke — whom Van Morrison calls "shaman, showman, the teacher and preacher of soul […]”