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Time was not kind to Ray Charles, but for decades he seemed impervious to its machinations. His best years had come in the mid-’50s and the ’60s, when he virtually invented soul and then refused to be ...

The final recording of Ray Charles, Genius Loves Company, enjoys its tenth anniversary. It is striking to consider that it has been over ten years since the death of Ray Charles, one of the most ...

He was in his sunset. Yellows, pinks, and oranges combined with the encroaching black of night to form a cool reminder of Ray Charles' smoldering day. The Genius, as Charles was sometimes known, ...

NEW YORK >> One night in Stockholm half a century ago, Ray Charles delivered a blood-pumping, soul-shaking concert that was almost lost to history. The evening begins with a finger-snapping rendition ...

Producer Gregg Field says that creating the new Ray Charles album "Ray Sings, Basie Swings," due Oct. 3 from Concord Records and Starbucks Hear Music, was "like painting the Sistine Chapel with a ...

Each week in The Vinyl Vault, Ozarks First’s Parker Padgett and Tony Nguyen dive into a featured album, highlight standout tracks, and explore what makes it truly unique. The vinyl of the week this ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. And it's not ...

It was a quiet moment in a recording studio between two old friends — the genius of soul and the king of blues. Ray Charles and B.B. King were readying to record a bluesy number that married one’s ...

Two wonderful albums from Ray Charles and El Michels Affair that belong in your record collection in 2021. 2021 is just flying by and I will have a lot more to say about my Record Store Day 2021 ...

Ray Charles spent his lifetime blurring idiomatic boundaries. He was rightly called a genius, and though credited with being one of soul’s breakthrough artists, Charles explored the entire realm of ...