Tonight’s daily dose is from the late Solomon Burke, performing Valley of Tears with Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch. Mighty fine.

I was familiar with some of Burke’s Atlantic recordings from back in the day, but when he released Don’t Give up on Me, on Fat Possum, I listened to that recording over and over and over. When was that? 2002 maybe? It was just overflowing with soul. We were fortunate to attend one of his performances at Massey Hall. That was a great night.