“I love OffBeat,” legendary record producer and executive Jerry Wexler rasped in heavy New Yorkese over the phone several years ago to OffBeat management. “But can’t cha do something about the small type?” Wexler, who died from congestive heart failure on August 15 at the age of 91, was an OffBeat subscriber. He wasn’t afraid [...]
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Solomon Burke
July 1, 1997 – 12:01 am
Aretha may be the Queen of Soul and B.B. is the King of the Blues, but Solomon Burke’s moniker stuck in two genres. Crowned “The King of Rock and Soul” by a Baltimore disc jockey, Burke’s title has never been disputed—except by James Brown, but more on that later. Larger-than-life singer, bishop, mortician, and raconteur [...]
