A Hauntingly Exquisite interpretation of the Blues is perhaps the best way I can describe Solomons King's brilliant new release, "Medicine". With a voice that sounds like a cross between Mark Knopfler and Johnny Cash, GRAMMY® Nominated Blues artist Solomon King has released one of the better Albums yet in 2011.

....Living up to the description as "stripped down Blues, back to its naked essence", the majority of "Medicine", is truly that, with just Solomon King doing, Guitar and Vocals, and Don Heffington…Read more

 "Blue is a color, Blues is all the colors"
B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King ......en the new American bluesman Solomon King ? Zo een vaart zal het onmiddelijk nog niet lopen maar het album "Under the Sun" van Solomon King, voormalige werknemer in de Detroitse automobielindustrie, opent toch wel enkele leuke blues / guitar perspectieven. It won't go as quick as that but the album "under the sun" sure makes some good blues/guitar perspectives. Solomon King worked earlier in Detroit Automobile…Read more

A Hauntingly Exquisite interpretation of the Blues is perhaps the best way I can describe Solomons King's brilliant new release, "Medicine". With a voice that sounds like a cross between Mark Knopfler and Johnny Cash, GRAMMY® Nominated Blues artist Solomon King has released one of the better Albums yet in 2011.

....Living up to the description as "stripped down Blues, back to its naked essence", the majority of "Medicine", is truly that, with just Solomon King doing, Guitar and Vocals, and Don Heffington…Read more

Basking in overcast memories of hard living, blues singer/guitarist Solomon King got his start in Motor City's "automobile dream factory." Chasing the blues dream, King ultimately relocated to Los Angeles. After years of finger-bleeding, King turned a corner with his 2008 debut Under The Sun--two tracks featured on HBO's beloved True Blood. His sophomore project, Medicine, produced by Marvin Etzioni, is graced by bassist Sebastian Steinberg (Soul Coughing) and drum master Don Heffington. Discover the…Read more

American Blues man with a mean boogie. Solomon King is a Grammy nominated blues artist with style. Medicine is his second album, produced by Marvin Etzioni (Lone Justice). 10 tracks and back to the blues. Solomon King has got the right ingredients for a top album.

Throughout the USA, Canada and Europe Solomon King has played on broadcast radio leaving his emotion, music and soul where ever he plays. Medicine has all the essentials for a great blues album. Boogie, Bo Diddley, and low down dirty blues.

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Over the course of the striking, stripped-down Medicine, former Detroit autoworker Solomon King returns to that moment when the blues moved inexorably away from the uplift that defined gospel music, and ultimately toward rock ‘n’ roll and then hip hop. The blues sought, at first, to define every-day concerns, but there were no easy answers. As with King’s efforts on this new project, it sought to render those things more real, to define them. That made the music, back in the days of…Read more

GRAMMY® Nominated Blues artist Solomon King releases his follow up album Medicine.

Solomon first garnered international attention in 2008 as "Jack Me Up" and "Frankie & Johnny," both from his debut album Under the Sun were featured on two episodes of HBO's Golden Globe winning “True Blood”series, followed in 2009 with a GRAMMY® entrant nomination as Under the Sun was considered for "Best Contemporary Blues Album."

Throughout 2010 Solomon King was played on broadcast radio across the U.S., Canada,…Read more

Medicine was written and performed by Solomon King, 
with Don Heffington on drums. Produced by Marvin Etzioni (Lone Justice) who combined his signature stripped down raw vision with Solomon's songs to create a sound only found on Medicine. Other musician's include Sebastion Steinberg on bass and Pablo Alemann on percussion on "Trouble."

In a whirlwind recording session Solomon describes the process “We were only in the studio tracking for two days, we recorded five songs one day, then we came back a month…Read more