The fourty-fourth album: #44 Solomon Burke - Rock 'n Soul
The weird thing about these R&B albums is that some of them give me flashbacks to working in the local supermarket, where the same four or so hours of music were on a constant loop, so they got stuck in your head. Just hearing this start brought me back to those days. I tend to get confused with music genre timelines, but this leads towards soul, something that's quite clear from the start, including some of the vocal stylings that come with the latter. Mostly, it's the background singers that add this different sound in what can feel like call and response segments.
They're mostly fairly classic love songs, following the R&B trappings and on the whole staying clean and simple. There is nothing too outrageous here - no James Brown style outbursts - instead keeping it simple and easily digestable. Light, but talented and good fair that harkens back to past songs while introducing some new elements - just not pushing it forward by that much.