Phone interviews are always risky. Without the added bonus of facial expressions and appearance, it’s sometimes difficult for the interviewer and interviewee to truly get comfortable with each other. In the past, I’ve conversed with both the monotonic and the stimulating, the bored and the over-anxious, but nothing prepared me for my conversation with the King of Rock and Soul, Solomon Burke. I had heard he was a flamboyant character, but reserved my judgment. Beyond his ‘60s hits “Cry to Me,...