Solomon King & The Chosen - Against The Current

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:26
Size: 72.0 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[4:56] 1. 57 Octaves (Below Middle C)
[4:19] 2. Shadow Land
[3:55] 3. Come Home Soon
[3:43] 4. Underground Brother
[4:48] 5. Against The Current
[5:37] 6. Pussy Cat
[4:05] 7. Cocaine Blues

Grammy entrant nominee, critically acclaimed, appearances in film and t.v., live shows across the globe, still, Solomon King remains an enigma. His music is deeply rooted in the Blues of his native Motown but “that voice” hasn't been heard since Johnny Cash. With his new album, "Against the Current" Solomon conjures up the ghosts of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, and even Igor Stravinsky. But Solomon King does not copy other artists. Rather he proudly steals from the wealth of the past to create what will be stolen in the future. “that voice” is back!

Solomon King's music is... "Dark Romantic" embracing musical styles ranging from Rock to Blues to Americana but always uniquely Solomon King. If Nick Cave and ELO were to collaborate you might have something like "57 Octaves (below middle C)". If Johnny Cash replaced Otis Redding you might be listening to "Underground Brother". If Roy Orbison were to materialize with a new classic of longing and loss "Come Home Soon" would be streaming through your earbuds.

"A lucky seven combination of eclectic love songs and superb musicianship, Against the Current leans on many vibrant influences, where every sound has a musical quality... Lou Reed’s bristling tough sound (“Shadowland”); Jim Morrison’s blues (“Pussycat”); churning Stravinsky-like rhythms; and, a Bowie-like breezy, gorgeous title song that has a heroic “Heroes”-like vibe" ~Ashley Jude Collie

Against The Current

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Solomon King & The Chosen - Medicine

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 28:34
Size: 65.4 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:34] 1. Medicine
[2:46] 2. Baby Does Me Good
[2:02] 3. Make You Mine
[2:04] 4. Little Wheel
[2:58] 5. Don't You Love Me No More
[3:02] 6. Closer
[2:04] 7. Cinnamon Rose
[3:29] 8. Bucket
[3:33] 9. Trouble
[2:56] 10. Be My Baby

Today’s charts are jammed with sappy performers who can’t really sing and don’t play instruments and who are created by record companies with the sole purpose of milking our kids of their cash. Did I hear some exec say, “We just need customers who are like sheep and go baaaaaaaa, and performers who have their dance routines down pat!” Face it, when it comes to modern music it’s all about being served a load of pop and pomp. . .PAP! But every now and again, something makes us want to shout, “Hold on, what’s that?” and then, “Drop a freakin’ needle on that record!” Solomon King’s debut 2009 CD, Under the Sun, earned him a Grammy entrant nomination. Now his new CD, Medicine, strips down today’s over-produced slush and returns music to its very essence. Medicine is an exciting throwback to when the blues and rock made you want to rock and roll! Medicine is a tasty dish, evoking John Lee Hooker, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and a little of that “bad to the bone” of George Thorogood. It’s raw, one-take, uncomplicated medicine for the soul. Trust us, resistance is futile. . .so shut up and just take your Medicine! ~Ashley Jude Collie

Medicine

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Solomon King & The Chosen - Jack Me Up: The Solomon King Collection

Size: 99,1 MB
Time: 40:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Jack Me Up (3:37)
02. Under The Sun (6:00)
03. Baby Does Me Good (2:20)
04. Frankie & Johnnie (4:57)
05. Bad To Me (2:39)
06. Love & Happiness (3:39)
07. Train (5:34)
08. Whiter Shade Of Pale (5:03)
09. Be My Baby (2:57)
10. Addicted To Love (3:51)

There are those that simply play the blues and some people that have lived them, and there are those like SOLOMON KING who have done both. With songs in True Blood, a Grammy entrant nomination for Under the Sun and a new album just around the corner, it's time to revisit that Johnny Cash-esque sound wrapped up in the blues sound that made him an enigma. "That Voice" Is Back!

Jack Me Up

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Solomon King - Train

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 31:02
Size: 71.1 MB
Styles: Roots, Blues rock
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[2:19] 1. Baby Does Me Good
[2:37] 2. Bad To Me
[3:41] 3. Coffee Song
[3:32] 4. Slo Blues
[2:45] 5. Great Wall
[4:00] 6. Country Song
[3:34] 7. My Baby's Love
[5:34] 8. Train
[2:57] 9. Blue Angel

There are those that simply play the blues and some people that have lived them, and there are those like SOLOMON KING who have done both. Hailing from Detroit, King’s days as an auto worker read like something out of a Charles Bukowski novel complete with booze and broads. When the massive layoffs came, King headed West with an acoustic guitar in hand and began a career in the very music that celebrates hard living, drinking and woman that know how to take your mind off things, only to land you in more trouble.

Fast-forward to 2008. Solomon King starts hanging out at Babe and Ricky’s the now defunct, seminal South Central Los Angeles Blues Club. If there is such a thing as a hipster destination for blues, this is it. And King belongs.

Fast-forward this time to 2013: King releases “Train,” a tasty collection of blues-rock tunes that walk the line between love and lust, while celebrating getting on with one’s life. With his live touring band firing fierce salvos of modern New-School Blues across the musical tracks the question of “put up or shut up?” is definitively answered. Rockwired Magazine tabs Solomon King as one of its “25 Guitarists You’ve Gotta Hear.” Good.

Train

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