Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

In Otis Redding's hands, Try a Little Tenderness fires a secular devotion that is every bit as intense as its spiritual cousinOf all the great soul singers, perhaps Solomon Burke is most famed for bringing the fervour of the church to his recordings. A former child preacher, he carried all that fiery charisma honed at the pulpit into a series of soul-stirring performances through the 1960s and on for a further five decades.In his book Just My Soul Responding, Brian Ward speaks of how Burke "sym...

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