Line up :

Solomon Burke : vocals
Elisabeth Burke : vocals
Candy Burke : vocals

Samuel Mayfield : guitar
Lynn Duckett : guitar
Eddie Towns : bass
Robert Wood : drums
Julia Cunningham : harp
Kenneth Meredith : trumpet
Millard Jackson : piano
Smith Will Cleveland : Hammond
Carl Wayne Vickers : trumpet
Joseph Kalet : baryton sax
Earl J Mallory : sax

No guns, but a lot of roses !!!!!!

The approx. 600 people who came to this small venue close to Paris were at THE place to be on that given evening.

After Dee Nasty as an opening act ( not bad hip hop music mix that would have been just as good on tape than with a guy on stage), Solomon and his 15 piece backing band treated us with a great performance of approx 100 minutes.
Heavy weight soul legend and reverend Solomon Burke was in excellent mood. 

Solomon communicated a lot with his front row audience, handing out roses to the girls, T-shirts and CD's to the guys.
Unfortunately, only a small part of the audience dared to react and give the band the response they deserved.

Highlights of the show : fantastic versions of Soul searching, a long medley including Stand by me ( with Solomon standing !), Spanish Harlem, Sittin'on the dock of the bay, Fa Fa Fa (sad song) and If you need me.

After a big thank you from Solomon to the french for standing against war in Iraq, he introduced us to his backing vocalists.
The 2 sexy ladies are his youngest daughters (still not married, as he told us).
Gorgeous Elisabeth performed a great version of I will always love you, the Withney Houston classic, whereas sister Candy sang the Gloria Gaynor hit I will survive. That song was the anthem of the 1998 Football (soccer) World Cup that took place a few miles away from the venue and that France won. No need telling you that she had a good (but unfortunately not spectacular) response from the audience !

The show went on with a great rock medley, including Lucille, Shake rattle & roll and Tutti frutti, inviting dozens of women to climb on stage and dance, despite the overwhelmed but numerous security staff.

The only real disappointment came from the fact that Solomon left the stage without singing his greatest hit Everybody needs somebody to love. The band just performed an instrumental version, before leaving the stage one by one.