"As important a black voice as anyone else who plied their trade at Atlantic, or indeed Stax and Motown, Burke's grit and guts on R&B hits like Everybody Needs Somebody To Love or If You Need Me make them soul shouter set texts. Delve a little deeper into his catalogue, though, and you'll find chart entries with their roots in Nashville; impassioned takes on Jim Reeves' He'll Have To Go and Bobby Bare's Detroit City, both featured among the 78 tracks on this set ... an extraordinary catalogue of music one can confidently describe as majestic".