Solomon Burke, a renowned soul and R&B vocalist, has put out a comeback album on the Fat Possum record label. It's called Don't Give Up on Me, and features new songs by Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Elvis Costello and Tom Waits. A CD full of dynamite music, sung by a stirring voice.
You can listen to the entire album in streaming audio here. Yet another reason why this whole Internet thing rules.
This is the archived edition of a blog kept from Nov. 24, 2002, to
Feb. 29, 2004, by Clay Wirestone.
The original description: "From the overstuffed mind of writer,
editor, cartoonist and crank Clay McCuistion comes a blog full of
-- well -- stuff. And things."