Solomon Burke

Album review: Bobby Womack's 'The Bravest Man in the Universe'

2012-06-12 16:38:17

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Levon Helm: Joe Henry remembers 'a deacon who spoke our gospel'

2012-04-20 16:36:24

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Larry 'Wild Man' Fischer dies at 66; vagabond singer made albums with Frank Zappa

2011-06-18 00:00:00

"Wanna buy a song for a dime?" For many startled UCLA students and Sunset Strip sightseers in the 1960s, that was the way Larry "Wild Man" Fischer introduced himself. Anyone who took him up on his offer was rewarded with a brief, bellowing burst of...

Joe Henry talks the open-window approach to 'Reverie'

2011-10-10 16:35:11

'The X Factor' recap: Back to the judges' homes

2011-10-17 16:35:44

Live review: Global Soul with Stevie Wonder at the Hollywood Bowl

2011-07-25 16:35:32

Grammy Awards 2011: Lady Antebellum nears a rout with 'Need You Now'; Arcade Fire's 'The Suburbs' takes album of the year

2011-02-08 12:31:20

Lady Antebellum's desperate late-night call for companionship, "Need You Now," was named record and song of the year among five awards the country trio collected during the 53rd Grammy Awards ceremony Sunday from Staples Center in Los Angeles. But the...

Critic's Notebook: A night of bold moves and noisy risks at Grammys

2011-02-14 00:00:00

Uprisings have been in the news of late, and here was another one. This year's Grammy Awards ceremony, telecast from Staples Center Sunday night, was a generational takeover and an airing of the widening gap between the traditional corporate music...

Grammy Awards: Lady Antebellum, Arcade Fire take top honors

2011-02-14 00:00:00

Pop provocateurs Lady Gaga and Eminem may have brought more compelling career stories to the 53rd annual Grammy Awards, but on a shocking night the big trophies went home Sunday with Southern trio Lady Antebellum and Montreal indie-rock band Arcade Fire....

Solomon Burke dies; singer's voice was as big as his soul

2010-10-11 00:00:00

Solomon Burke, a pioneering singer-songwriter of so-called sweet soul music whose powerful ballads in the 1960s were a major influence on a generation of rock, R&B and pop vocalists, has died. He was in his early 70s. Burke died early Sunday morning of...

Album review: Jerry Lee Lewis, 'Mean Old Man'

2010-09-07 16:35:16

Live review: Jerry Lee Lewis at Fox Theater in Pomona

2010-09-27 16:35:32

An in-demand producer who collects Grammy nods the way some collect stamps, Henry may be best known for the warm glow he's cast on award-winning records by Solomon Burke and the Carolina Chocolate Drops. But he deserves as much notice for his own work as a singer-songwriter. Colored by rich

2012-02-03 15:16:49

Joe Henry won't brag, but he has never made a bad record. Or had a hit (though "Don't Tell Me," a re-imagined version of one of Henry's songs, was a Top 10 smash for his sister-in-law, Madonna).

2012-01-26 13:54:35

Atlanta's Janelle Mon�e takes a page from the stage antics of James Brown and Solomon Burke .

2011-07-25 17:44:51