Jerry Williams
(
Swamp Dogg
) produced an excellent late-'70s
soul
session for the legendary
Solomon Burke
on the tiny
Infinity Records
label.
Williams
mixed upbeat numbers with a pronounced
Afro-Latin
beat and confessional
country
/
tunes, emphasizing
Burke
's trademark song sermons. The music was much too raw and rural for the pseudo-sophisticated big-city radio set, but
Southern soul
loyalists treasured it.
Shanachie
's CD reissue includes two bonus cuts, and its digital sound displays the strength, clarity, and power of
's voice.
gets high praises for reissuing the album, but low marks for the horrendous misspelling of
's name all over the CD. ~ Ron Wynn