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Make Do with What You Got

album by Solomon Burke

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ60761673 ↗
Source-derived summary

Make Do with What You Got is an album by R&B musician Solomon Burke. It was released on March 1, 2005, on the Shout! Factory and Sony BMG labels. The album was produced by Don Was and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

Critical reception

Make Do with What You Got received mostly favorable reviews from music critics. AllMusic critic Mark Deming praised Burke's vocal ability while also criticizing Was's production.

Track listing

Personnel

Guitar: Ray Parker Jr., Reggie Young.

Editorial summary

“Make Do with What You Got” enters the record as album by Solomon Burke. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Make, What and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Make, What and album.
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Why this record matters

“Make Do with What You Got” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Make, What and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60761673. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Make Do with What You Got” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.