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Solomon Burke: Soul Alive!

Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 1984

APPARENTLY THE audience at this 1981 D.C. club date didn't realize that classic, gospel-rooted soul is hopelessly unhip, because it responds to Burke's impassioned performance with a fervor that makes the title of the two-record set a perfect capsule description.

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